I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.
The blog here at dsandler.org is mostly historical; you can find more recent posts on Google+.
OK, since I’m not really a regular reader of Homestar Runner (now why
exactly is that?) I didn’t catch that, in the
Buffy finale, “TROGDOR the
BURNINATOR”
is a Homestar Runner thing. I guess Joss is
a Strong Bad fan!
Senator Byrd seems to crop up here with some frequency. Here he is again, in a speech
he made yesterday:
Regarding the situation in Iraq, it appears to this Senator that the
American people may have been lured into accepting the unprovoked invasion
of a sovereign nation, in violation of long-standing International law,
under false premises. There is ample evidence that the horrific events of
September 11 have been carefully manipulated to switch public focus from
Osama Bin Laden and Al Queda who masterminded the September 11th attacks,
to Saddam Hussein who did not.[…]
[T]he Bush team’s extensive hype of WMD in Iraq as justification for a
preemptive invasion has become more than embarrassing. It has raised
serious questions about prevarication and the reckless use of power. Were
our troops needlessly put at risk? Were countless Iraqi civilians killed
and maimed when war was not really necessary? Was the American public
deliberately misled? Was the world?
Oh, yeah, other reading material: OSI c/o ESR on SCO vs.
IBM. [Sorry, for the TLA-challenged, this is Eric S. Raymonad‘s position paper
for the Open Source Initiaive
about the lawsuit
that the Santa Cruz Operation, or SCO (now owned by Caldera), is
bringing against IBM for (allegedly) including proprietary SCO
intellectual property (which IBM had legitimate license to use in
its own Unix
operating system as part of a collaboration with SCO) in its
contributions to the public and open-source Linux kernel. More
generally, SCO is arguing that the Linux kernel, as it exists today,
infringes their intellectual property.]
You know, I don’t know that much about how Dolby and Dolby Pro Logic II
work, or why my dad tells me that attaching a speaker across the tip
wire of your left and right channels magically generates a surround
channel. Well, the concepts are more than casually related, and
fortunately for me, the guys at
Dolby can explain how.
Where is
Mars? (Hint: later this year, it will be at its closest point to the
Earth in 60 millendia.)