When Google first introduced their online calendar module, I was intrigued, and particularly impressed with the smooth incorporation to GMail. Over time, though, the number of potential appointments seem to have been increasing in the sidebar of my GMail app, culminating tonight with an email exchange with one of my friends:
In the wake of the recent ruling to uphold the gay marriage ban in Washington, emails have been flying around Microsoft with commentary. One article that caught my eye was an MSNBC piece on the difficulties of being in the heterosexual minority.
Ten months after the eighth version of Flash was released, Macrodobe (this is my clever way of saying it’s really Macromedia but OK we’ll call it Adobe sort of) realized that the flexibility in their coding model was leading to some sloppy coding! I got a PSA from Adobe the other day with some Flash programming best practices:
So if you were walking up the stairs to your office, started wandering around on the floor, how long would it take you to realize you were on the wrong floor? Here’s how it went for me…
I’m off to get some sleep, and hopefully avoid this situation in the future.
In case you aren’t an avid comment reader, I wanted to call out Laura’s special link that she left on my earlier post.
It left a smile on my face. Why can’t we get more marketing like that in the US? Seriously!
But what I find interesting is the tone in the ad… “They’re gonna taste great??” That wouldn’t work in America at all! We don’t want random future predictions, we need isntant gratification! It’s a minor point, but I find it interesting that the rhetoric has to be “It works,” “It’s the best,” “It tastes great.” Very declarative. Does that say something about our society?
It was a cold Wednesday night in February when I was watching Veronica Mars, and I saw an quick preview for the movie Pulse: A Japanese horror film remake starring Kristin Bell (aka Veronica Mars), set to come out on March 3rd.
This awful Head On commercial is driving me crazy. Do low budgets mandate crappy commercials like that? The commercial fails to even mention what the product is for – just what you do (a growing trend among medicine advertisements lately, I suppose). Couldn’t they at least ensure that the lady put the damn tube on her forehead? Seriously!
As part of my first week at Microsoft, I had to write a brief bio about myself. I didn’t want to use the one that I used on the MHCI Bio page, so I started doing some research, and came across a number of “How to Write a Good Bio” sites, including this one from essortment.
Among other things, the site suggests that writers start their bio “with first person references and midway through change to the third person. … By using a delicate combination of first person and third person tenses, you can give a professional element to your resume or bio.”
Is this some new kind of writing style? I rarely see first and third person mixed together in the same passage, even in a bio. And when I do see the two voices mixed together, it looks like someone forgot to proofread it. I certainly don’t think it looks professional. But maybe I’m just behind the times, so if you’ve written successfully this way, let me know. I also welcome the opinion of any English majors (Sarah).
My friend Eric expressed concern that my blogging would taper off since I probably couldn’t blog about work at Microsoft. Well, there’s good news. I looked up the Microsoft policy on employee blogging, and the only requirement is that bloggers use common sense! Sweet! That’ll be easy, considering I don’t have any common sense.*
Oh man. I’m startin to get prods from friends to get blogging with updates. The bad news is that it’s been so long I have to call attention to it in the very medium I use to communicate (a common precarious sign for future blogging). The good news is that I have more to say than, “More coming soon!” (No offense to friends’ blogs who have taken a dive shortly after a “More coming soon” post. =P)
Anyway, I’ve moved into my apartment, and started work this week. Lots to say, but I’m gonna spread it out a bit. For now, I’ve got some furnished pics of the new digs. Won’t you come in?
