As I roll into day 2 of f’Unemployment, my inbox is quickly filling with auto-response emails thanking me for my application. As I am sure will occur in the coming weeks with increasing frequency, I find myself asking “how did I get here?” I mean, sure, I remember going to school. I remember making the… Continue reading That time again…
Month: March 2010
Google Code University
I saw a posting about the Google Code University on Hacker News this morning. A quick inspection of the site shows a nice set of tutorials on Python, C++, Java and Go. I personally worked through Google’s Python Class last night and found it to be easy to follow and relatively comprehensive on the basics… Continue reading Google Code University
Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Upgrade – 1000HE EeePC
So… I decided to bite the bullet and forge forward with the dist upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 last night… Ok, so let’s be honest – I let curiosity take control once again, allowing my cautious mind to be overridden: allowing the entry of ‘sudo update-manager -d’ in the terminal… This was about 11PM last… Continue reading Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Upgrade – 1000HE EeePC
Genuinely Perplexed
I am genuinely and generally perplexed. My family and my friends are the things of which I feel most certain. The other facets of my life, less so. Of one other things which I feel is most definitely certain: this is not how I dreamt it. Am I sad? Sometimes. Am I depressed? Not chronically.… Continue reading Genuinely Perplexed