I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.
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Question: Last month, Hewlett-Packard started running a TV spot
called “Anthem”. (There are three ads in their current campaign; one is about a spaceman, one is about
fighting crime. This is the other one.) It is accompanied by a
familiar-sounding piano-and-orchestra piece, set in a fast-moving,
mechanical but irregular tempo (7/8 perhaps?). What is this piece of
music? (I don’t know the answer. Do you?)
Guess the movie from the still. Oh wait, you have to do it based on
the costumes and sets alone, because
the actors have been removed in Adobe Photofalsifier(tm). This is
surprisingly hard!
If you have an opinion on file-sharing, or copyright law, or mp3s
— or don’t have an opinion, but like reading well-tempered
opinions — read this article
by Tim O’Reilly on piracy and copyright. Please, read it.
News flash: Gore will not
seek presidency in 2004. Unlikely to get the nomination, or
walking away from a fight (vs. the incumbent patriotic juggernaut) he
knows he can’t win? Prediction: 2004 will be a pathetic,
1988-like bid for the top spot for the Democrats.
Oh, MacOS X users: Try hitting Command-Control-Option-8. Seriously.
Crazy! (Do it again to restore balance to the world.)
“It’s a crappy little ship, a rustbucket,” Fillion said. “It’s the Volkswagen
Van of spaceships.”