I have been a professional software engineer for over 10 years.
I have written many kinds of software, but my particular strengths are interactive graphics applications,
compilers and interpreters, and algorithms.
I also enjoy writing,
woodworking, and
home improvement.
Also this.
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Thursday, June 28, 2001
As I've mentioned before, I use my Amazon.com wish list to record books I'd like to read, which I typically get from the library. However, I find that my wish list grows over time -- that is, I'm adding to it much more quickly than I'm reading books on it. Partly this is because I often read stuff that never makes it to the wish list, especially stuff that is easier reading than some of the more ambitious stuff on the list. Anyway, I think I'm going to read nothing else until I've read all the books that are on my wish list right now.
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Monday, June 25, 2001
We went and saw Fiddler on the Roof the other night. In it, there is a wedding scene where the men are all dancing together and likewise the women, as tradition apparently forbids men and women dancing together. Then the young rebel, Perchik, pronounces that there is no reason men and women cannot dance together, and proceeds to dance with one of the women. Eventually, the men and women are all dancing together. When I watched this scene, I was reminded, despite myself, of the movie Footloose. Clearly, my cultural education took a very wrong turn somewhere.
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Thursday, June 14, 2001
Another redesign! As promised, and doubly resolved after reading a recent jwz rant, this one is pretty minimal. Clean and simple, with no JavaScript, no font face specifications, and no graphics except the "JOE GANLEY" on the left and the little dogeared permanent URL icon. Also, no content except the part that Blogger handles will need to be updated with any kind of frequency. Also, I finally added a search widget; I occasionally look back for a link from some past weblog, and there are enough months of them now that this is sort of cumbersome without search functionality. Enjoy!
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An article in today's San Jose Mercury-News echoed my suggestion from a few weeks ago that handheld makers are suffering from the fact that there is little compelling existing users to upgrade. They also make the excellent suggestion that one way to continue the revenue stream might be to focus more on software; for example, my PIM wish list describes many shortcomings of the PIM software that is packaged with the PalmOS.
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Thursday, June 07, 2001
Baby names I love but will never use: for a girl, Miranda, and for a boy, Chance.
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Wednesday, June 06, 2001
A long time ago I went on a spree of signing up for affiliate programs. One of them was with a site called Irish Nation, who sell (duh) Irish stuff: family crest paraphernalia, claddagh jewelry, etc. I just got an earnings summary from them, and I earned some commissions from some stuff someone bought through my link in February. The funny part is that I don't have a link to them; I'm not sure I ever did. Perhaps someone mistyped their user ID and got mine. Anyway, if you need Irish stuff, Irish Nation is a great place to get it.
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We've finally publicized the stuff I've been working on (and keeping secret) for the past two years! In short, it's the first architecture to enable extensive use of diagonal wires in integrated circuits. See the Simplex press release and stories in EE Times, C|Net, The Wall Street Journal (front page of the print edition!), and SlashDot. Update 6/13/01: The X Initiative web site is now up, which contains links to these and other news articles.
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Tuesday, June 05, 2001
I just read all three of Ric Edelman's books in succession: The Truth About Money, The New Rules of Money, and Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth. Of these, The Truth About Money is quite good; it's a fairly general and comprehensive personal finance how-to. A few things are out of date -- tax laws and such -- but mostly it's a good read. The New Rules of Money is also good, though it rehashes a lot of the same material. I found Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth pretty lame; it again rehashes a lot of the stuff in the other two books, and on top of that well over half the book is client testimonials "in their own words," which I found totally useless. So, my recommendation is that you buy The Truth About Money, borrow The New Rules of Money from a friend or the library and skim it, and skip Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth altogether.
As with all personal finance books, it helps if you understand finance well enough to decide whether you agree with him on various points; certainly some are debatable. In particular, one thing that annoys me about Edelman is that he seems to think maximizing your savings at retirement is the most important goal, no matter how it impacts your lifestyle throughout your life up to that point.
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