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The Mentalists cover MGMT using iPhones and iPods
Monday, March 02, 2009
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Now for something completely different
Thursday, May 29, 2008
I'm in San Francisco for the Google I/O conference/geekgasm. It's too awesome for words. I'd almost forgotten how much I love this city and the West Coast in general. Gorgeous. Careful Maine, you just might loose me!
The Wednesday morning keynote was an introduction by Google Engineering VP Vic Gundotra to the cloud availability, pervasive connectivity, and ease of deployment strategies Google is trying to realize with products like Google App Engine and Android.
I followed this up with a couple of sessions, one by Python creator Guido van Rossum and another by Google Fellow Jeff Dean. At the end of a fascinating trip under Google's hood, Dean announced that the after party should not be missed. Oh yeah, he also let slip that Flight of the Conchords would be playing. The room collectively w00t!!11!-ed its pants.
Jeff was right. The party was something to behold. The main room where the keynote speech was held that morning had been transformed into a Google playland. Foosball, pool, Wiis everywhere. And the food. Two words: Chocolate fountain. I'll say this, Google can throw a party. I've never seen so many developers in one place not bitching about work; and that's saying something.
Throughout the conference we've returned again and again to several core philosophies Google holds near and dear, but there were some blind-spots I wasn't expecting. Google is trying hard to be a good friend to developers and to humanity in general, but it's just too huge and too powerful; there's still an undercurrent of trepidation amongst many of the older and wiser attendees. And there's definitely more going on behind the scenes.
With any environment where there is a finely delineated inside and outside, there's going to be suspicion. And suspicion kills.
Unfortunately there's nothing for it. Google can't be what it is without holding some cards close to its chest, and we can't survive as users and developers without remaining vigilantly critical of its motives and methods.
More to follow once I've had a chance to digest and ponder.
The Wednesday morning keynote was an introduction by Google Engineering VP Vic Gundotra to the cloud availability, pervasive connectivity, and ease of deployment strategies Google is trying to realize with products like Google App Engine and Android.
I followed this up with a couple of sessions, one by Python creator Guido van Rossum and another by Google Fellow Jeff Dean. At the end of a fascinating trip under Google's hood, Dean announced that the after party should not be missed. Oh yeah, he also let slip that Flight of the Conchords would be playing. The room collectively w00t!!11!-ed its pants.
Jeff was right. The party was something to behold. The main room where the keynote speech was held that morning had been transformed into a Google playland. Foosball, pool, Wiis everywhere. And the food. Two words: Chocolate fountain. I'll say this, Google can throw a party. I've never seen so many developers in one place not bitching about work; and that's saying something.
Throughout the conference we've returned again and again to several core philosophies Google holds near and dear, but there were some blind-spots I wasn't expecting. Google is trying hard to be a good friend to developers and to humanity in general, but it's just too huge and too powerful; there's still an undercurrent of trepidation amongst many of the older and wiser attendees. And there's definitely more going on behind the scenes.
With any environment where there is a finely delineated inside and outside, there's going to be suspicion. And suspicion kills.
Unfortunately there's nothing for it. Google can't be what it is without holding some cards close to its chest, and we can't survive as users and developers without remaining vigilantly critical of its motives and methods.
More to follow once I've had a chance to digest and ponder.
Labels: bloggers, blogging, Google, Google Code, Internet, IO2008, technology
IBM IT Manager sim
Friday, April 16, 2004
Via Metafilter:
The IBM IT Manager sim. A nifty little game promoting the latest and greatest IBM office-space must haves.
Registration is required - although it accepts fake e-mail addresses - and you can only play once per day per registration. Kind of lame that. Otherwise, as pointed out by dejah420 over at mefi, aside from the fact that women do not exist in IBM's ideal IT world the game is pretty cool. Plus you can use it to train your own replacement in Bangalore!
The IBM IT Manager sim. A nifty little game promoting the latest and greatest IBM office-space must haves.
Registration is required - although it accepts fake e-mail addresses - and you can only play once per day per registration. Kind of lame that. Otherwise, as pointed out by dejah420 over at mefi, aside from the fact that women do not exist in IBM's ideal IT world the game is pretty cool. Plus you can use it to train your own replacement in Bangalore!
Labels: Internet, technology
a good start
I've added some new sections to the blog. No content yet, but sections are a good start. They allude to content. It's implied, one might say. More soon. CSS is our friend.
Labels: bloggers, blogging, CSS, Internet, technology
The new, the cool, the real
Sunday, April 04, 2004
The new.
I've spent the last couple of days giving myself a crash course on css. Hopefully that's obvious.
The cool.
Newsmap is a my newest, most favoritest toy. It's an app that shows a graphical representation of the amount of "ink" individual stories are getting via Google News. Awesome.
The real.
600 American lives lost so far, and it's about to get a whole lot worse.
"KUFA, Iraq, April 4 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - After U.S.-led occupation forces killed 20 of his supporters in An-Najaf and two others during a raid on his office in Baghdad, Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr urged his followers to "terrorize the enemy" because protests have become useless."
"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Seven U.S. soldiers were killed in clashes with supporters of a leading Shiite cleric in a Baghdad neighborhood Sunday, military officials told CNN. "
I've spent the last couple of days giving myself a crash course on css. Hopefully that's obvious.
The cool.
Newsmap is a my newest, most favoritest toy. It's an app that shows a graphical representation of the amount of "ink" individual stories are getting via Google News. Awesome.
The real.
600 American lives lost so far, and it's about to get a whole lot worse.
"KUFA, Iraq, April 4 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - After U.S.-led occupation forces killed 20 of his supporters in An-Najaf and two others during a raid on his office in Baghdad, Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr urged his followers to "terrorize the enemy" because protests have become useless."
"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Seven U.S. soldiers were killed in clashes with supporters of a leading Shiite cleric in a Baghdad neighborhood Sunday, military officials told CNN. "
Labels: bloggers, blogging, CSS, Internet, iraq, Mehdi Army, Moqtada al-Sadr, technology
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