Television is a waste of time, they say, nothing good can come of it and it’s a horrible form of media consumption. With all the Big Brothers and Celebrity Top Models and Kim Kardashians out there … who could blame them? Television really does seem like a colossal waste of time. Combine that with all [...]
The oldest joke online is that geeks have never seen a girl. Or that nice guys can’t get a girl. Variations of this story have been happening all my life, my fellow geeks tell similar stories and the internet is awash with rage comics saying the same thing. But this particular story happened last night, [...]
Yesterday I had my (hopefully first rather than last) technical interview with Google UK. Short story: That stuff is fun! Longer story follows. Sometime in January one of Google’s recruiters sent me an email; whether I’d be interested in talking with him. That my online profile looked interesting and so on … at first I [...]
Late January @andraz approached me with an idea: What if I helped Zemanta spruce up their tech blog? The blog had been languishing in neglect for a long time. An update every couple of months, completely random and with no real direction or purpose. Since they’re a company that’s all about blogging I guess it [...]
Every couple of years I actively participate in our version of mardi gras and dress up in a costume. It’s usually something mundane like dressing up as a living statue or a girl or whatever. This year, however, I decided to go full out. Finally, an excuse to make a steampunk costume! I’m not the [...]
You’ve heard of Lake Bled right? The only lake in Slovenia containing the only island in Slovenia? Right!? Oh it’s just one of the most beautifulest places in Slovenia. Yesterday I walked all over the bad boy! The really amazing thing about Lake Bled is that every couple of years it completely freezes over. To [...]
War veterans tell the best stories – testosterone-filled men crammed in compact spaces doing something dangerous/awesome produce the best stories. Geeks? We have deployments to Silicon Valley, that’s where our best stories come from. The greatest story my life has to offer comes from my first stint at Silicon Valley – this summer, interning for [...]
TEDxBled is right around the corner and it’s accepting random people to come give a talk. There’s a competition going on and out of everyone who submits a video they’ll pick the best two to come dazzle the audience. Since this is a pretty cool opportunity and I almost have something worthwhile to say I [...]
What use have an artist, a baker, a winemaker, a firefighter and a brewer with programming? None. Yet. An article surfaced on HackerNews yesterday arguing that Programming is the new High School Diploma, the main argument being two facts: Computers are everywhere Automation is pushing out middle-tier jobs The basic idea is really simple – [...]
It took me six months to work up the courage to make an appointment for the dentist. After some initial confusionI finally managed to bump into someone and magically make an appointment before I could realize what was going on. I was told to come back in a month. Today. The experience taught me two things: [...]
