tl;dw
Forgive me, Internet, I have sinned.
It has been six months since my last post. So much has happened since then that I have wanted to tell you about.
And I tried!
Oh, I tried, several times—I have the WordPress drafts to prove it. But somehow anything too large for a tweet ended up a five-page essay with footnotes.1 (I would have written less, but you know how it goes.)
So. Let me be very brief:
- I finished my doctoral studies and got my degree. You can read my thesis if such things interest you.
- My son turned one year old. He is awesome.
- My wife, The Boy, and I now live in the Boston area. We love it here.
I now work at Google (with some dear old friends) on the Android operating system. It’s pretty exciting. There is a lot of very hard work yet to do.
I am still interested in research topics, including distributed systems, security, and social networks. I also continue to maintain my Mac software on the side. These pursuits have taken something of a back seat to the above bullets, however.
Whew.
Now I can start making notes (of the longer-than-140-character variety) again. Thanks, Internet, for your kind indulgence.
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No, seriously. ↩
5 responses
good to have you back in an older medium… I can imagine your style leaves a great many blog posts unfinished, but just “let them free” (free, free…).
comment posted at 7:34 am on 22 Nov 2009
I don’t get the title of this post: “tl;dw”
I reckon it’s some clever bit of code/Unix that I just haven’t run into yet. Or a typo.
Congrats on all of the bullets above, Dan!
comment posted at 4:49 pm on 04 Dec 2009
@Darryl, tl;dr is a common abbreviation for “too long; didn’t read” so Dan probably wants you to read tl;dw as “too long; didn’t write” since that fits nicely with the topic of his post.
comment posted at 2:36 pm on 05 Dec 2009
Well, crap. If he didn’t throw the semicolon in there I could’ve just Googled it myself. Thanks Tom!
comment posted at 3:44 pm on 07 Dec 2009
And of course, now I realize the semicolon works just fine in Google. Not so much in Chrome’s combined address/search bar.
comment posted at 3:45 pm on 07 Dec 2009