It's tough to come up with new compelling content week after week, not that I think what I have is compelling, but it would be easier to just put up porn.
I am getting totally huge. I topped 181 lbs for the first time the other day. I'd be psyched if it wasn't all fat. The combination of 60 hr/week job that provides free dinners and free snacks doesn't leave that much time for working out and doesn't make for sensible eating.
I now subscribe to about 50 different RSS feeds, and I find that the more news I get, the less of it I actually read. After browsing the headlines, I now skip the articles I would've read before. And there's a lot of overlap between a bunch of different feeds. If you break it down, I have about %20 world news/top story, %10 general science, %20 software/java/linux, %10 sports, %10 entertainment, %20 misc, %10 personal/friends blogs. My favorites are still Slashdot, Wired, cnet.com.
I changed my work PC from Windows XP Pro to White Box 3.0 linux(though I have dual boot just in case). It seems really stable so far. Although I have to admit the windowing system doesn't feel as fast as Windows. One of my co-workers claims that it's just because the dual monitor feature which allows you to drag between monitors really slows it down. But it does feel like I'm losing a bit of performance in Linux. But on the other hand, I am so used to unix utilities I personally gain a lot of productivity there. I want to use Eclipse for Java development, but unfortunately it doesn't support Java 5.0 that well, and we use those features extensively. I am actually writing a fair amount of C/C++ code too lately and I want to try out the eclipse C integration. People think of it as just a Java tool, but it supposedly has a good enough architecture that it works well for other languages. We'll see how it goes.
I interviewed a PhD in Math from Berkeley who was interested in working for us the other day and was reminded how weak my math knowledge is compared to what it probably should be. On the other hand, my software engineering skills are pretty good.
Oh and the Google stock price is insane. The valuation($48B for a company with $52m in earnings last quarter) makes you wonder if we're living in 1999 again.
I am getting totally huge. I topped 181 lbs for the first time the other day. I'd be psyched if it wasn't all fat. The combination of 60 hr/week job that provides free dinners and free snacks doesn't leave that much time for working out and doesn't make for sensible eating.
I now subscribe to about 50 different RSS feeds, and I find that the more news I get, the less of it I actually read. After browsing the headlines, I now skip the articles I would've read before. And there's a lot of overlap between a bunch of different feeds. If you break it down, I have about %20 world news/top story, %10 general science, %20 software/java/linux, %10 sports, %10 entertainment, %20 misc, %10 personal/friends blogs. My favorites are still Slashdot, Wired, cnet.com.
I changed my work PC from Windows XP Pro to White Box 3.0 linux(though I have dual boot just in case). It seems really stable so far. Although I have to admit the windowing system doesn't feel as fast as Windows. One of my co-workers claims that it's just because the dual monitor feature which allows you to drag between monitors really slows it down. But it does feel like I'm losing a bit of performance in Linux. But on the other hand, I am so used to unix utilities I personally gain a lot of productivity there. I want to use Eclipse for Java development, but unfortunately it doesn't support Java 5.0 that well, and we use those features extensively. I am actually writing a fair amount of C/C++ code too lately and I want to try out the eclipse C integration. People think of it as just a Java tool, but it supposedly has a good enough architecture that it works well for other languages. We'll see how it goes.
I interviewed a PhD in Math from Berkeley who was interested in working for us the other day and was reminded how weak my math knowledge is compared to what it probably should be. On the other hand, my software engineering skills are pretty good.
Oh and the Google stock price is insane. The valuation($48B for a company with $52m in earnings last quarter) makes you wonder if we're living in 1999 again.
posted by Hubert at 10/22/2004 11:45:00 AM
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