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25 FFTW!!! (Happy Birthday to Me)
Two days ago, I joined as one of my acquaintances well said, the Quarter of a Century Old club. After 25 solar revolutions, much has changed even if when put back to back each year looks as the one before. So in typical hacker fashion: def __init__: age = user.get_age() age++ Cheers and thank you…
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Blogging the Busy Life
Its funny actually. I imagined that with work, I’d have more money and time to do the things I want. Money is not the issue after all. Time on the other hand, is the ultimate scarce resource. Hence I blog less than I want to. Fortunately as I fall into the rhythm of work, free…
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A New Hope
Ok, I just had to take that title. While I’m not a huge Star Wars fan, light sabers and X-wing fighters are cool. So why the title? And why the enthusiasm? First, I have a job! Thats right, I now work as a software consultant for VisionMAX Solutions. I get to build neat web applications…
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No Recent Grad Open Source Jobs for Non-Rockstars
As I continue my job search, I realized the difficulty of finding open source jobs for recent graduates. Especially if you aren’t a rockstar programmer. Unless people know you, and you worked on a high profile open source project, there seems no real way of working in the open source business. Open source businesses have…
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Working Titles
After the disappointment of having to admit defeat with one of my projects, I can announce success in two separate ventures. First, I am writing the first chapter of a science fiction novel. Secondly, I started planning an open source game title. I am excited about these two new experiments. I post more details about…
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Eclipse
No, I am not talking about the popular Java-based IDE here. I am talking about the total lunar eclipse that started this evening at 8:40PM. Very nice sight. But cold as hell. Can’t these things happen like in August more often? Anyways, as I am writing this, the moon is slowly reappearing. Or more accurately…
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Productization of Self
Wonder where I have been in the past few days? Still job hunting and figuring how best to market myself to prospective employers. Its not easy for a few reasons. First, is most people don’t learn about how to do this sort of thing until they hit unemployment line. I for one don’t claim to…
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Review of 2007, the Promise(s) of 2008
The year 2007 has been quite a dynamic year for me. Instead of writing a long article about each thing… cause that might take me an year to write and edit, I will just present a list of lists of things that happened. Academics Completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto at Mississauga.…
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Merry Christmas
Just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. To everyone expecting a card… its coming… hopefully sooner than later. Also no release of justCheckers yet… I broke it badly with the refactoring of the game package. Hopefully I can release something before the new year. Good night. Long day, too much partying and eating cake.
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The Strept Empire Strikes Back
I have been sick these past few days, with a painful case of strept throat. So I have been unproductive until today. In more positive terms, I help host a side event for the 2007 Annual Symposium of Streptococcus. Now I have to clean up after the mad bacterial partying. Yum. In other news, I…