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 April 7th, 2007

CPU gnomes.

April 7th, 2007

I guess I meant to write something more meaningful as my first nontrivial post in a month.

My poor little PowerBook G4 (Al, 1.3GHz, 768MB) is suffering. Something is eating cycles, and I can’t figure out what. It’s been like this for a week or two. Take a look:

Not enough information? Fine, here’s a top listing, showing that I’m barely running anything, and that the CPU figures don’t seem to add up:

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