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+.
“Like most of the nation’s ten-year-olds, I had an intense, private relationship with Snoopy, the cartoon beagle.” Comfort Zone: Growing up with Charlie Brown, a lovely exploration of Peanuts and life in the 70s, by Jonathan Franzen, in The New Yorker.
u2log has the U2 Rare/Unreleased track list (from the 446-song digital box set on iTunes).
Note: Beautiful Day : Always :: Vertigo : Native Son
Update: In the same day that we have Lego Trogdor, we learn about actual burninating of knockoff Lego.
Information Age (Australia): RSS: For Geeks Only? “Machines work best with machine code and that’s what RSS is – a semantically useful format that an RSS reader (i.e., your agent) can use to help you deal with the information tsunami that is approaching.”
(That’s exactly the kind of purple prose I have to work so hard to avoid in my own writing.)
That’s a really big … book, you have there…: “The first to comment was Skeletor the manager, who kept staring at the book as he rang up my order. I could tell he was going to say something, and eventually, he said, ‘Tom Jones, huh? I didn’t realize he wrote books. I thought he just sang those sexy songs. (wink, wink)’???