After three phone screens and a grueling full day interview at Google New York City, they have declined to hire me. Oh well.
Author: Paul Tomblin
Wow! Just wow!
This photo blog of a flying trip into Alaska in a tundra-tire-equipped Piper Super Cub just has me in awe. The scenery, the photography, the fun of a gaggle of Cubs parked in that scenery… It’s all just too much. I read this and I want to immediately grab a Super Cub and head north.
Kingfisher patrol
On Friday, I ducked out of work early to go kayaking because I’d been kept late for various emergencies on previous days. I have been a little worried about the “NO TRESPASSING” and “AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY” signs that have appeared at my put-in at Browncroft Avenue, so I was planning to go down to BayCreek and put in there, but the wind was blowing so strongly that I decided I’d risk the parking ticket and put-in on the more sheltered part of the creek.
Continue reading “Kingfisher patrol”
Headdesk
Hey, I’ve got a weird idea: When a beta customer, who is using build 30, starts complaining about the same problem we’ve spend the last 15 builds trying to fix, maybe instead of pulling several of us off our work to look to see if we can manually enter stuff into their database to kluge it up to get them going again, you should update them to build 45? Just a suggestion.
Some upgrades are easier that others
I just upgraded my blog software from 2.1 to 2.2.1. I’ve been wanting to do that for a while, but I wanted some free time. Once again, I ignored the bit in the instructions where it says to deactivate all the plugins first and then reactivate them afterwards, and once again the upgrade worked perfectly. Ok, I had to re-activate the options to get the category and archive widgets as dropdowns, but that was simple.