➠ July 8, 2008
Airplane finally close to takeoff. Attention coworkers: I will be late tomorrow.
Posted to Twitter at 11:01 p.m.
Starting to suspect—and it’s just a hunch—that my flight, which is yet to start boarding, won’t be departing at the advertised 9:30 time.
Posted to Twitter at 9:29 p.m.
Protocol Buffers: Google's Data Interchange Format
A smidgen of Google’s secret sauce — a lighter-weight-than-XML data interchange format, with heavily optimized cross-language serialization routines. Just the thing for shuttling and persisting data.
Charlie Brooker: These days, I assume that everything I do is probed and examined by omnipotent corporations
“The way things are going, I half-expect to hear a quiet electric “peep” noise each time I flush the toilet; another bowel movement logged by Bumland Security.”
Playing the “Match the shared iTunes Library to the person with the laptop” open-wifi game.
Posted to Twitter at 8:55 p.m.
The Greatest Bug of All
Or “Why you need to understand operating system fundamentals if you want to ship end-user software”
Flight to SFO delayed. Won’t be getting in until at least 2am. Current mood: Even swearier than before.
Posted to Twitter at 8:03 p.m.
Managed to arrive 24 hours early for my flight. An expensive mistake. Current mood: profanity-laden.
Posted to Twitter at 4:18 p.m.
House: Sold. We: killing time. At: Museum of Science. Flight to SF: Later.
Posted to Twitter at 12:21 p.m.
Enjoying our last 40 minutes of home ownership. It’s someone else’s problem soon!
Posted to Twitter at 10:22 a.m.
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