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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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Archive for January 24th, 2003

And jwz has written a new screed on the state of video playback in Linux.

January 24th, 2003


And jwz has written a new screed on the state of
video playback in Linux
. The best part may be the first entry in
the Random Commentary section at the bottom, on the topic of
UI themes in software; this comment (and associated jwz reply) is both
superlatively astute and offensive enough that you’ll have to go
read it for yourself — I don’t even want to quote it here.
Also, I must remember the phrase “festival of overkill”.

More colorful commentary on Slashdot:

January 24th, 2003


More colorful commentary on Slashdot: It’s not just
“if it’s not broke, don’t fix it.” this is a case of “it frelling works
great, keep your hands off of it or I’ll kick you in the jimmy”

Wow.

January 24th, 2003


Wow. So, I had stopped reading Scarygoround, shortly after I began, mostly because it seemed to be
taking quite a bit of time getting up to the level of kinetic energy
that his old strip had had. I’ve
just started re-reading it, and like Outland following Bloom County,
Scarygoround has settled nicely into a groove that happens to reside
right next to the groove of its predecessor. Go check it out.

<erin> That’s pretty funny.

January 24th, 2003

<erin> That’s
pretty funny. Lot funnier than a cardboard samurai
warrior
.

Penny-Arcade:

January 24th, 2003


Penny-Arcade: As it happens, there’s another license
out there now that we think could be a real blockbuster. Get it?
Blockbuster.

CSS signatures:

January 24th, 2003


CSS
signatures
: User-defined custom stylesheets for specific sites.

Gabe:

January 24th, 2003


Gabe:
I swear to God sometimes I think Piro is about three sad girl
drawings away from a complete breakdown.