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 June 9th, 2005

A new spam attack?

June 9th, 2005

I’m starting to wonder if spammers are starting to deliberately send malformed emails in the hopes that mail clients (like Mail.app) will fail to run rules, including “send to Junk”, if the message can’t be parsed. I’ve been getting a lot of emails with high-ascii Subjects and Froms of late, incorrectly encoded (made only worse by DSPAM, which seems to create more trouble when it encounters character encoding trouble).

NWA

June 9th, 2005

Nina Gordon, formerly of Veruca Salt, covers “Straight Outta Compton” by NWA (mp3). Outstanding. [via Marco]

Quantum entanglement of Tiger windows.

June 9th, 2005
  1. Open a multi-windowed, multi-drawered app like TextWrangler.
  2. Get a couple of windows going.
  3. Close a document drawer by dragging, rather than clicking the toolbar button.
  4. Now try dragging one of your windows. They’re all stuck together! Example: 11MB QuickTime movie
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