Archive for April, 2008

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I’m meeting with a guy from Google. He enters the board room and starts to talk to me about the long flight he just took from San Francisco. There’s something strange in his voice and I don’t quite believe that he just got off a plane. He quizzes me with a few programming challenges but [...]

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Wild Life

I am trying to be quiet, hiding between some thin trees in the forest. There is a lion somewhere around here and I have evaded him with great care. Just when I start to get comfortable, this giant Turkey-Dog™ growls at me from only a few meters away. I stopped eating mammals years ago. The [...]

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Emma Kowalczyk (who will always be alive in google)

Had to take a break from working all night to pause before midnight and think a bit about Matt, Ellen and Ella who all lost a loved one today, Emma. If it weren’t for the countless array of blogs, videos and twitters to remind, report and reflect, I don’t think even my overactive imagination would [...]

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hacked on april fools day

Not sure yet if this is a random hit or someone I know but it happened: HACKED HACKER32_BURAK ! h4cker32_burak@hotmail.com MUCKED Bravo for not destroying anything–I always appreciate a good security breach as long as nothing is harmed :)

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