Really, name a cruise ship the MS Explorer, and of course it’ll crash. Silly people. A Canadian cruise ship struck submerged ice off Antarctica and began sinking, but all 154 passengers and crew, Americans and Britons among them, took to lifeboats and were plucked to safety by a passing cruise ship. The Chilean navy said [...]

I get asked pretty frequently to review resumes, by strangers and friends alike. I wrote a bit about this on CareerCup (my other website – technical interview questions and such). When I was in high school, a teacher returned an essay of mine with the following written on the top of the paper: “Know your [...]

Barack Obama is speaking at Google today. Supposedly, Eric Schmidt explained his speaking at Google was kind of like an interview. When we interview candidates at Google, we like to ask technical questions. Schmidt: What’s the fastest way to sort 32 bit numbers?Barack: Not bubble-sort. Sure, we’d expect a little more from a technical candidate, [...]

I still read my university’s newspaper. I’m not sure why, really – other than that little ‘subscribe’ in Google Reader is just too easy to hit. Each year, it’s the same set of crimes – some shootings near campus that don’t involve Penn students, a bunch of muggings, the bank being robbed, and some violent [...]

Coming to you from Big Brother in South Africa… … viewers of the incident, which took place on Saturday afternoon after an extended drinking bout which ended in copious vomiting and apparent blackout for Molokwu, remain adamant about what they saw: Bezuidenhout lay down next to the comatose young woman and penetrated her vagina with [...]