Annual recap - 2021
Family * Tara turned seven * had a birthday party at Safari Run * Halloween trick-or-treating with one of Tara's friends and her family * End-of-the-year hike at Stanford Dish * Go…
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Annual recap- 2020
Me: * “Company kick-off” cruise in the Bahamas * My first (and probably last) ever * In retrospect, very happy this didn’t turn into a COVID super-spreader event * Started tiny daily meditati…
A time of transition
I've been at Confluent for a year and half now, and it was fun in many ways, but I've decided upon a change, and I'm joining Sigma Computing next week. Another instance where I was lookin…
My history with computers, part 4: The early internet
Context In my previous post I talked about how the realm of what was possible expanded when we got a better, faster computer … but it took a whole other leap with the first “on-line” experiences. Q…
The Enchanted Wood
A long time ago, when I was busy trying to read everything by Enid Blyton1, I came across The Magic Faraway Tree. And. I. Loved. It. This being the age before Amazon and not having a large library ar…
My history with computers, Part 3
Old computers sometimes had a “Turbo” or “Boost” button to manually switch to a higher clock speed. Toggling this on and off could count as a valid game-playing strategy, if you needed to “speed past”…
Thoughts on continuing to use Twitter
Context In a previous post1, I mentioned how my experience of Twitter is actually quite nice and I don’t encounter any of the craziness that other people report. Is that still true? Well, yes and no…
Thoughts on blogging (changes)
Status Looking at my “online activity” for the past 5 years, I’ve been writing at: 1. Twitter 2. Wordpress 3. A Static Blog Observations * Of these, (3) is basically dead, and is around merel…
My favorite year in movies- 2006
There are a bunch of movies I’ve liked, over the years, in different genres, from different times. But there is an unusually large cluster of them around a single year, 2006 (about fourteen years ago…
My history with computers, Part 2- “Mid 90s
Context Picking up where I left off last time: we’d got a first, new computer, the first set of simple games, and a first operating system (ye olde DOS). QBasic As I’ve mentioned, the only program…
My history with computers, Part 1: “Early 90s”
Context As hinted at in a previous post, I thought I’d go over a history of my interaction with computers. This was … harder than I thought, mostly because I barely remember anything. If only I had p…
Thoughts on Wordpress and Medium
I had tried out Medium earlier, perhaps three years ago. At the time, I found it redundant for what I had started doing, which is sharing the curated monthly links. Wordpress was a better fit for that…