I set a couple of New Year’s Resolutions last year, which I didn’t get around to posting here. One of them was to write 52 tracks, which I finished. I slipped on a few others.
So, I’m going to post my goals for 2009 in three categories: personal development, music, and fitness. [...]
Today, at work, it was sexual harassment training day. No, that means they teach us company, state, and federal policy on avoiding workplace sexual harassment. Surprisingly, despite the fact that I’ve worked in the HR department of two major Silicon Valley companies, there were a few things I learned.
An offending act can be [...]
A while back, I noticed a crapload of followers that were obvious spammers following my tweets on Twitter. So, in a weird moment of decision, I locked my profile down and started the slow process (back when it was still broken) of trying to block everyone I don’t know from following me.
I’m sure twitter [...]
April was an incredibly unproductive month in my projects. I wrote just one track all month–one ambient track that took me almost half an hour. All the reasons I come up with for not writing music on the train are all lame. I’m just lazy.
Of the 30 days in April, I completed [...]
Okay, I understand if your company doesn’t have a big budget. These things happen. But, there’s such a thing as idiocy.
Look what I found on craigslist!
$12/hr + benefits. You just have to know MySQL, PHP, AJAX, LAMP/WAMP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript. They’ll smile on you even bigger if you know C++, Flash, [...]
Marc Andreessen, an undisputed Silicon Valley technology leader, addresses the Web 2.0 bubble misconception in an essay that has lots of great points. He mentions that all of us in the technology industry are a little gun shy, since many of us were hit very hard by the dot com crash of 2001. [...]
Today, I finally wrote the reviews for places I Plazed or dodged in from when I went to Oregon and Idaho at the end of March. Since Yelp doesn’t offer the ability to predate posts, they’re all dated today.
I still have a couple more months of stuff in the Bay Area to add, but [...]
CBS Corporation has purchased Last.fm. $280 million? Wow. (<nod target=”Metafilter” />).
I’m a last.fm subscriber and have been for quite some time. Many of my friends are there, but I don’t interact much with last.fm. I primarily just listen to music in my local iTunes Library and check out my charts [...]
I spent almost all night downloading the last of the music I wanted to keep from my Locker. I crashed to the sound of one of my first playlists, “House of Jazz“, at 5:30 this morning. Myplay is over as of 10:00 Eastern Time this morning, exactly 38 months after we launched it on [...]
I saw the ad in Craigslist and popped a resume off. I was living in San José at the time and needed a job badly. Unfortunately, I had no corporate experience to speak of. It was the first resume I’d ever sent in response to an ad on Craigslist, but ten minutes [...]
I went back to my old cubicle today to clean up my incredibly messy workspace and migrate some e-mail and MP3 files to my Linux box at home. Of course, as soon as I started the upload for even a second, either the PacBell line or the office connection would go. I was [...]
Today, I was met at the door when I got to work by one of my coworkers, who took me to a member of the executive team. The somber look on his face worried me a little. “We had to make some tough choices and that included laying some people off. Unfortunately, [...]
Myplay’s holiday party happened tonight at a very swank Noe Valley house. I was working on a new playlist for the event (and by request of john’s girl, Yen) but didn’t finish putting the tracks in order, so I reposted Veni Vidi Saltavi (“I came, I saw, I danced”) in case the network difficulties [...]
A few of my coworkers left and will no longer be brightening my day every day. I can’t really talk knowledgeably about where or why they’re going, but suffice it to say that I’ll miss them. Take care of yourself, Ian, Robin, and Justin. It was cool working with you and I [...]
My company decided to take us all to the movies today. We went to see Almost Famous (2000). If you haven’t seen this wonderful coming-of-age movie about a budding writer for Rolling Stone magazine in 1973, you need to go tonight. Period. This movie is wonderfully acted, wonderfully written, and was [...]
Today is my anniversary day at work, the day on which a quarter of my options vest (whatever that means) and I begin thinking about performance reviews, which, for some reason, have always scared me. Will I get dismissed this time around? I’m led to believe that’s not what performance reviews are for [...]
One of my coworkers, Damien, an intern, was going back to college at USC or somewhere, so a bunch of us decided to go out and send him off drinking. We met up at a local bar a little ways from the office.
A lot of people showed up to hang out with Damien, before [...]
Worked extraordinarily late tonight, like I have all week (sometimes going home at 2 or 3 in the morning). We’re rebuilding everything and I’m one of two production people. Oh, the rapture. After work, I went home, tinkered with my own stuff a little bit, read a bunch of stuff, messed with [...]
Today was payday and, since my six month mark passed on the first, I got my bonus. Woo-hoo. One of these first days, I’m going to have to go get myself a futon, now that I have a little extra money. And get the Linux box more RAM and a bigger hard [...]
Today was the production team’s Beer Bash, a newly minted tradition where I work. We had a little brainstorming session yesterday to decide how to make everyone “look like bitches.” We came up with a shindig that noone will top for a long time.
In the brainstorming session, we decided we’d need a bartender [...]
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