Videos from Seattle Scalability Conference
Posted on Friday, July 27th, 2007
The Seattle Scalability Conference was held on June 23rd in Bellevue. One person posted their notes a while back, and videos of some of the talks were recently made available.
Enjoy!
Scaling Google for Every User [...]
continue readingRecruiting – The Pot Calling the Kettle Black
Posted on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
I just started subscribing to Microsoft’s Job Blog – I figured it might have some info related to CareerCup (my own site related to interviewing, with lots of technical interview questions).
The most recent post gives [...]
One Laptop Per Child – Why?
Posted on Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
So, imagine that you’re a starving child in Africa. You need food, water, medicine, and school supplies. Children all around you have died for lack of these things.
Someone offers you a laptop. [...]
Female Programmers: Are they special?
Posted on Monday, July 9th, 2007
Last week, at lunch with two Microsoftie-friends, we got into a discussion about why there aren’t many women in Computer Science. I’ve heard so many theories, but all we really know is that there [...]
continue readingBad Snail Mail, Bad!
Posted on Friday, July 6th, 2007
It seems like generally a good idea to limit the amount of snail mail you get that has sensitive information on it (social security number, bank account, etc), right? I called my bank today [...]
continue readingSeattle’s Kwik-E-Mart
Posted on Monday, July 2nd, 2007
Despite my best attempts to not read through my RSS feeds in morning, I stumbled across an article about 7-Eleven turning some of their stores turned into Kwik-E-Marts. Well, I was curious, so I [...]
continue readingStupid, stupid plaxo
Posted on Sunday, July 1st, 2007
Oh Plaxo, you were so close… so close…
Your syncing between Google Calendar and Outlook was great. Almost. But in the process, you’ve just spammed a whole bunch of my friends by sending out [...]