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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 November 25th, 2004

How to Deconstruct An Atomic Bomb

November 25th, 2004

The editors of u2log.com offer their song-by-song review of the new U2 disc.

In which the author apologizes profusely for the downtime.

November 25th, 2004

Sorry about that. Don’t know what the deal was.

Cameron on exploration.

November 25th, 2004

James Cameron in Wired: The Drive to Discover. “Those high school touchdowns scored by Neil and Buzz and the others are trophies that have been gathering dust, but we still fantasize that we are the same team we were then.”

-v -v -v

November 25th, 2004

Matt (“Señor WordPress”) on Stop Worrying: “Only thing is the URIs are a little verbose.” Yeah, I’m still getting accustomed to the named URLs (a feature I was most excited about in WP). I keep forgetting to explicitly specify a concise URL slug.

It doesn’t help that I can’t figure out how to do it in MarsEdit without shortening the actual title (and thereby the slug as well). And I love my absurdly verbose titles!

Shuffle The Monkey

November 25th, 2004

Chris offers a neologism:

sh&-f&l shäk (n) The act, process or experience of stumbling across a song in a long iTunes shuffle play that you were not aware you owned, are embarrassed to realize you own, or both.

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