waving android

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, 2003

Old Bush footage + video editing = harsh, hilarious, fake State Of The Union address.

January 27th, 2003


Old Bush footage + video editing = harsh, hilarious, fake State
Of The Union address
.

Steampunk + Slashdot = Dashdot.

January 27th, 2003


Steampunk +
Slashdot = Dashdot.

jwz:

January 27th, 2003


jwz: hey,
over here! Shiny! Use this instead of
abusing <TABLE>! Free beer!

The Atlantic Monthly:

January 27th, 2003


The Atlantic Monthly: What is the
Real State of the Union?

A postmortem of this year’s Super Bowl ads, full of misery.

January 27th, 2003


A postmortem of this year’s Super Bowl ads, full
of misery
.

Last night I thought there was just something wrong with my local routing tables, or maybe my ISP’s segment.

January 25th, 2003

Last night I thought there was just something wrong with my local
routing tables, or maybe my ISP’s segment. Slow connections, many (but
not all) DNS queries failed.

The problem was more widespread as it turns out. [disassembly]

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”.

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