Rands In Repose: A Glimpse and a Hook I just read this post, you should read it too. It’s a great follow up to my earlier post about college CS resumes. I agree with “rands” (not his real name) on a lot of what he said, so rather than rehash, I’ll offer how I do [...]
will run on light and daydreams. They will be omnipotent and will catapult Apple into the stratosphere as most profitable company… EVER. Steve Jobs will be canonized by the Catholic Church and all wars and famine will end so that all people can bask in the radiant glow of their Apple devices. I mean, I’m [...]
Anger over Halliburton’s move to Dubai | The Daily Telegraph Halliburton, headed by Dick Cheney from 1995 to 2000 before he became US Vice President, has announced it is relocating to the United Arab Emirates to capitalise on the Gulf region’s booming energy market. Wow, do they live in the “we’re-too-evil-to-give-a-fuck-what-anybody-thinks” world. I mean, c’mon, [...]
Apple Store UK leaks 8-core Mac Pro – Engadget 8 cores! woowee!
The SXSW mp3s are here! the SXSW mp3s are here! Playlist: Free SXSW MP3s The article above points you to the torrent of all of the mp3s. For the more discerning musical palate, try this link to the individual artist’s mp3s
Google’s Buses Help Its Workers Beat the Rush – New York Times This is the kind of thing that makes me love/hate google. About 15 years ago, I used to commute from San Francisco to Mountain View (at SGI, whose ex-campus now houses google). I’d sold my car, so I didn’t commute on the 101, [...]
On a kick of moving the posts from the old PFRK blog to here. Filling in the history a bit. Unfortunately, it is a manual process, ’cause I was using one of the world’s most obscure pieces of blogging software. So, there is still a long way to go. Some of the categories are fully [...]
According to a city study, workers must earn $38 an hour to afford the median-priced Seattle condo and $50 an hour to afford the median priced in-city single-family home. (Median means half sell for more, half for less.) But with housing prices surging ahead of wage gains, many workers can’t afford either. Among those priced [...]
The rest of the country is seeing the bubble deflate in very real terms. All across the country, the weird mortgages that people got in irrational exuberance are now producing record percentages of defaults. Here it Seattle, it is a little bit different. The pyramid scheme hasn’t collapsed, but it is definitely slowing down. Tear-downs [...]
still getting the blog back together, but had some sort of server mishap… Expect things to be in a state of flux for a couple more days.
