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I feel bad about not posting here all that much anymore. So, in no particular order...
The new job is going well enough. Been doing some actual productive work recently, which is nice. It's interesting to be part of a big, formal software development process for the first time in my life. It definitely has its advantages, though the plodding slowness of it is kind of a shock. Fundamentally, I think my personality is better suited for rapid iterative web development.
Been using Microsoft Test Manager recently, which is an amazing pile of crap. It reliably crashes doing some very basic things, the look and feel is quirky and inconsistent, the interface elements are poorly implemented and the overall feel is that of a pre-AJAX web app. Ugh. Some things you can reorder with up/down arrows (though not click-and-drag), others you have to type in a new index number. Ye gods.
I finally caught up with the rest of the world and got myself a modern phone. A Nexus One, to be precise. And I love it soooooooo much. The last couple years have been very frustrating for me, see. I got my first smartphone in 2001, a Visorphone. I got my first data plan in 2003. I was into smartphones back when it was crazy to be into smartphones. And then... I went to grad school and had to drop my data service. That was the year the iphone came out. I fell off the curve just as it finally got actually useful! So, well, it's good to be back on the crest of things.
When you get a Nexus One, you're offered the chance to get two short lines engraved on the back. Which seems awesome, until you try to figure out what to put there. It took me hours to decide. Couldn't get anything from Howl short enough, and the first two lines of Beowulf are only a couple characters too long. (And I wasn't sure I trusted them to get the special characters right, even if it rendered properly in the web view.) Really liked the idea of stealing Hiro's business card from Snow Crash, but again 'Greatest sword fighter in the world' was just too long. Finally comprised with a bit of practicality and went with ' / Last of the freelance hackers'. So then I had to reread Snow Crash, of course.
Why the hell hasn't Snow Crash been made into a movie already?
The new job is going well enough. Been doing some actual productive work recently, which is nice. It's interesting to be part of a big, formal software development process for the first time in my life. It definitely has its advantages, though the plodding slowness of it is kind of a shock. Fundamentally, I think my personality is better suited for rapid iterative web development.
Been using Microsoft Test Manager recently, which is an amazing pile of crap. It reliably crashes doing some very basic things, the look and feel is quirky and inconsistent, the interface elements are poorly implemented and the overall feel is that of a pre-AJAX web app. Ugh. Some things you can reorder with up/down arrows (though not click-and-drag), others you have to type in a new index number. Ye gods.
I finally caught up with the rest of the world and got myself a modern phone. A Nexus One, to be precise. And I love it soooooooo much. The last couple years have been very frustrating for me, see. I got my first smartphone in 2001, a Visorphone. I got my first data plan in 2003. I was into smartphones back when it was crazy to be into smartphones. And then... I went to grad school and had to drop my data service. That was the year the iphone came out. I fell off the curve just as it finally got actually useful! So, well, it's good to be back on the crest of things.
When you get a Nexus One, you're offered the chance to get two short lines engraved on the back. Which seems awesome, until you try to figure out what to put there. It took me hours to decide. Couldn't get anything from Howl short enough, and the first two lines of Beowulf are only a couple characters too long. (And I wasn't sure I trusted them to get the special characters right, even if it rendered properly in the web view.) Really liked the idea of stealing Hiro's business card from Snow Crash, but again 'Greatest sword fighter in the world' was just too long. Finally comprised with a bit of practicality and went with '
Why the hell hasn't Snow Crash been made into a movie already?
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