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May 28 QualityHere is the T-Shirt Google gave atendees of the Google IO conference (where they demonstrated the scarily cool Android phone):
Isn't it cool? They know binary <snort>, ha ha, <snort>. It is kind of unfortunate that the T-Sirt spells GOOGLEKO (instead of GOOGLEIO) and use all caps.
From the top line to the bottom line it says 'G' (01000111) 'O' (01001111) 'O' (01001111) 'G' (01000111) 'L' (01001100) 'E' (01000101) 'K' (01001011) 'O' (01001111). The second to last line should be 'I' (01001001).
Ain't I smart? Ha, ha, <snort>, ha, <snort>. Yes, I'm a nerd.
By the way, the Android phone is very, very cool.
May 26 Programming ExplainedIt is often hard to explain why software programs come out wrong so frequently. There are more methodologies to create software than in any other productive field (sorry economists...). Companies as Unisys and IBM tried to explain the phenomena; respected institutions such as the ISO standards, Gartner and many others tried to minimize uncertainty. I find all explanations and books interesting, but boring and they frequently miss the point.
So here it goes, the visual explanation on how developers approach software development:
What happens afterwards is that software engineers either try again or drop the project. Or they run out of money and go bankrupt. If you think this is restricted to old, traditional software companies, think again.
May 18 And Another PictureI don't think I post many pictures here, but it so happened that I was testing the Live Image Search and I found a number of interesting ones. I love this one, you can suggest a subtitle if you want:
Live Image Search allows you to filter by image size, color and, if you're looking for a person, whether you want a face shot, full body or head and shoulders. They have a number of other advanced filters that are quite interesting. They also list related people to the one you're looking for. For instance, if you are looking for someone that played with Michael Jordan but you don't remember the name, search for Jordan and a number of related names show up as suggestions.
It is pretty fun to use and to push it until it fails. May 16 Are You Stubborn?From the department of "one picture is worth one thousand words", I present you with the encounter of a bull terrier and a porcupine...
The dog and porcupine are doing fine.
May 11 I Look Like Someone You KnowYesterday we had dinner with our neighbors. They're from India and the dinner was a lot of fun. At one point they told us that both I and my wife could pass for Indians as long as we don't say anything. Specifically they said I looked like someone from a different region of India than the one they're from.
That is a pattern with me. The place I work looks like the United Nations and I had the opportunity to make friends with people from everywhere. My European friends say I look Italian (makes sense, my whole family is). My Lebanese friends think I'm Iraqi or Turkish. My Persian friends think I'm Palestinian. My Jewish friends tell me I look American, but I could pass for Jewish if I dress right and keep quiet (well, they disagree with each other). In Brazil my friends frequently tell me I look like a cousin or some other relative they have. My American friends know I’m not American – they think I’m from somewhere else. I heard everything from Americans, from random Latin American countries to Russia, to whatever. I like to think I look familiar to a lot of people - but maybe I'm just a bit out of place all the time :) May 06 And The Funniest Joke About Jerry Yang Is...This only makes sense if you're following the Yahoo! and Microsoft dance AND you watched Iron Man.
TechCrunch raised the possibility that Jerry Yang was put aside and one of their lawyers put in charge to continue negotiating with Microsoft. I know nothing about it and the article is very likely BS, but someone wrote a comment that cracked me up. Here it goes:
"I think I saw what was coming when Yang held that press conference where he sat down, cheeseburger in hand, mumbled something about never having a chance to say goodbye to Dad, then announced that, effective immediately, Yahoo! would no longer be in the search engine business, until such time as he could figure out what they should really be doing.
Of course there was an uproar from the crowd. Then that guy who looks like Jeff Bridges took the microphone and said that the deal with Google would allow Yahoo! to concentrate on their core competencies, and the MAIN THING was that Jerry was home safe and sound, or something like that.
Karim."
I hope this is the one Karim I know :) |
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