Archive for June, 2004

Hiking in the Blue Hills

Friday, June 25th, 2004

As I mentioned earlier, I went hiking with some friends this past Saturday, and I totally filled up my memory card with pictures. Here are a select few of my favorites.

I love the lovely warm colors of this photo, with the fallen pine needles making a orange carpet on the ground.

At the end of […]

A new job

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2004

It seems to be the season for moving on to new jobs, and I am no exception. Four friends from my first job have found new positions in recent months, and so now I have felt the power of networking for the first time (my current job found me through my resume on Monster–no […]

Whiteboards

Wednesday, June 16th, 2004

I think I should use whiteboards more often. They’re probably the easiest, fastest brainstorming and prototyping tool out there. Ideas just flow better with a whiteboard. It’s even better if someone else is there at the whiteboard with you.

Joel on the Windows API

Wednesday, June 16th, 2004

Joel from Joel on Software just posted a really interesting article about the fall of the Windows API, but I can’t believe that he didn’t include a single mention of Java! Well, besides a tiny paranthetical comment or two. He totally ignores the fact that you can write Java desktop applications (like IntelliJ […]

Yahoo! Mail steps it up

Tuesday, June 15th, 2004

I went to check my Yahoo! Mail this morning, to be greeted by a new 100MB quota and a slightly more polished look-and-feel. While it is much smaller than Google Mail’s gigabyte of storage, it should still last me a while.

My Yahoo! Mail account has messages of mine that go back several years. […]

Pell-mell

Monday, June 14th, 2004

The other day my sister and I were waiting for a table at Bertucci’s. A little girl, maybe three years old, was running down the aisle, away from her mother. I asked Meghan (since she has had lots of experience working with little kids in daycare) what makes little kids go running around […]