February 2012
7 posts
Video about the accessibility features in google... →
Yet, the youtube closed captioning is ‘[MUSIC PLAYING]’ the entire video.. so, you don’t get to read what they have to say.. I actually enjoy that my computer (workstation, server board) has no sound card. Tons of videos make absolutely no sense to me.. and while I appreciate that youtube has closed captioning (something I haven’t seen on any other video site).. it is...
Feb 29th
Woke up at 1am for no good reason to get a raspberry pi.. Internet exploded, got more sleep, came in to work and ended up paying an additional $20 handling fee for a pre-order for some future batch. Whatever, still have a raspberry pi coming my way for some fun project..
Feb 29th
Why yes, I did just deploy a brand new feature while you were using the system flawlessly. You’re welcome. And yep, its been running silently for 3 days while the data was being readied for it to be enabled. And now, I just flipped a switch, and you can play with it; I didn’t have to tell you, and I didn’t cause any bugs or disruptions. You’re just.. going about your...
Feb 17th
Watching...
As my hardwood floor gets a single board ripped up because of a defect … terrifying …
Feb 15th
“With over 15 billion page views a month Tumblr has become an insanely popular...”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter (via engineering)
Feb 14th
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Just watched Office Space with my new co-workers, as part of a release-party-event. And, yes, it was an uncensored version which was quite awkward. But, totally reminded me of all the stupid shit at my last job, that fits right in with the insanity depicted in the movie.
Feb 14th
“young people who didn’t enjoy the pursuit of the subject they were gifted...”
– http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328501.600-zap-your-brain-into-the-zone-fast-track-to-pure-focus.html
Feb 8th