Archive for December, 2007

Lobster Mathmatics

December 12th, 2007

I use the term “Lobster Math” to describe when a person learns something or can complete a task without knowing all of the intricacies or details normally required. Good technical recruiters for example, can accurately judge a technical resume full of words they don’t understand as well or better than a technical person who deeply [...]

Vanity Hire

December 12th, 2007

Main Entry: van·i·ty · hire Pronunciation: \ˈva-nə-tē\ \ˈhī(-ə)r\   Definition: When a person is hired for a position simply because the company thinks he/she will make them look cool.   Usage: “Did you hear Google hired Vint Cerf? Ya, he was a total vanity hire.”         

Unreal Tournament III for PS3 — Midway rocks!

December 12th, 2007

Neat. UT3 for PS3 looks good. Plus, I’m up 80% on Midway stock in the last week. I guess I should buy a copy. Good to see the old school game companys surviving. Midway, Activision, EA (despite being evil). -Shon

Spoke too soon. Safari still not 100% with gmail –No Back Button

December 4th, 2007

Used Safari for a couple days. It may be a little sexier than Firefox but a little more flakey… reminds me similar compromises with women… beauty is important but sanity is key… ideally you’d like a good combo of both. Back button is disabled in Safari on gmail. Ahh.. back to Firefox.

Safari issues with gmail finally fixed!?!?!

December 3rd, 2007

Wow.. it looks like the “new version” of gmail may actually be working-all-the-way in Safari. Time to finally get re-aquatinted with the native mac browser. What’s fixed? –Seems a lot of people didn’t know this was even broken. But for as long as I can remember, Safari would not display most of the enhanced interface [...]