Category: Work

  • Old Habits

    LAX, International Terminal, Box’o’Sushi, Connecting Flight to Taiwan … Old habits die hard.

  • Don’t Panic

    The interesting thing about working at a 23 year old computer company is what you find when you get ready to relocate the office. I got designated as the “museum curator” during the move preparations, so I’m collecting classic elements of classic computing as we toss obsolete equipment. During the move I sifted through the…

  • Quote of the Morning

    In the breakroom … CEO: (to engineer) “They tell you in kindergarten never to believe everything you read.” Me: “And in marketing, they tell you never believe everything you write.”

  • Happy Scheduletine’s Day

    I may have lost my mind at work. After repeated threats, meetings, shouting matches and meetings with company directors I have yet to acquire the elusive “schedule” … so I’m resorting to weird e-mails … Well, Valentine’s Day is coming tomorrow. I like to think that you care for the sales & marketing department (in…

  • SubNotebook Gladiators (Part 2)

    In yesterday’s post, I gave readers the history of the OLPC & Asus EeePC products … including why I’m go eager to geek out over cheap notebook computers. Today I put them together for a proper comparison.

  • SubNotebook Gladiators (Part 1)

    Tonight, on this website … two not-so-giants of the computing world meet to do battle … Well, they won’t do battle … but they will be compared. And pictures will be taken … No, not those kinds of pictures (pervert) … it’s just my comparison of the Asus EeePC and the OLPC.