Links courtesy of Slashdot: an interview with Marissa Mayer, and an overview of Google’s successes/failures in launching new products in the last few years. This latter article also features quotes by Ms. Mayer. This is the worst interview with a Google employee I have come across so far — Ms. Mayer comes across as naive and [...]
Archive for June, 2006
Milestone
29Jun06I just ran 3 miles in 24 minutes — that’s the magic 8:00 mark! This is excellent preparation for the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge run next week. My mark for the 3.5 mile course was going to be 32 minutes, but based on this, I might try 27 minutes or something. I’d be quite pleased [...]
Huma Zafar just sent me this great link from the Common Language Project. I always find myself protesting internally when I read negative articles about Pakistan, especially when written by a foreigner. The standard cache of cliched arguments (“they’re part of the problem”, “they can’t understand our culture”) surfaces and I have to actively suppress [...]
Brighton
13Jun06Belated, but hey…too bad I don’t have one of the Lake District. So much for this being a complete journal of my doings :) I went to Brighton on a day trip during the bank holiday weekend. CB (my friend from Chicago) went too…the weather was mild at best, with some chilly winds thrown in, and [...]
So here’s something that’s been bugging me for a while: the ORM facility that RoR provides is highly touted, particularly with regards to schema migrations, which are basically handled automatically. Clearly, these are great features for a fast-evolving project, but do they promote a more casual attitude towards reliability in open-source projects?I ask this because [...]
Blessing of the day: grapes
11Jun06‘Nuff said. Plump, juicy, sweeeeeeet, seedless grapes. More than mangoes (too messy), nihari (too unhealthy to have regularly), even aaloo salan (err…better check back about that actually, I might waver).That’s all, I’m going back to my grapes.
Dear Diary…
04Jun06I feel sometimes like I’ve totally given up on this blog. I mean, my last few posts have all been several weeks apart, and I haven’t even written anything I myself would be particularly interested in. And the shame of it all, is that the last couple of months have been a totally fun period [...]
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