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+.
So, the whole “abrupt halt of the Global Oceanic Conveyor leading to
famine and war” stuff has turned into kind of a foofaraw on the Net. The
Oakland Tribune seems to have a good summary
of both the report and the subsequent overinflation that seems to be
floating around now. (Read the full
report (PDF) if you like.)
On RSS and RDF: RDF spec, RDF pros and cons
re. Atom, excruciating history
of RSS.
OSNews has a very nice interview with GEH
about Palm OS Cobalt, including a few screenshots from the keynote demos
(not, unfortunately, including mine).
President Bush: “If we’re to prevent the meaning of marriage
from being changed forever, our nation must enact a
constitutional amendment to protect marriage in America.” (story)
Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing: Easy
on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Hooptedoodle.
Houston blogger Matt Mullenweg notes
that, yes, some of the sites in the Well-Designed
Weblogs series are easy on the eyes, but “some look plain,
unimaginative, squished.” He mentions the CSS Vault as a more earnest source of CSS
pornography (if that’s all you’re looking for); of course,
don’t forget to stop by the venerable CSS Zen Garden.