Archive for the ‘ Working Memory ’ Category
I was recently asked to talk about my project at work to a bunch of guys who were going to use it. During part of this presentation, I mentioned that we can use a temporary unique identifier to identify something. I suggested using a UUID. Only one of the audience, a certain Dr from a [ READ MORE ]
I came out of a 2-hour meeting today, thoroughly exhausted. The reason being that I was doing the talking for most of the two hours non-stop. I was told to give a short half-hour presentation thing, the same one that I have been giving to a number of other groups. It usually involves me talking [ READ MORE ]
I have just recently been informed that as part of the cost-cutting efforts at work, I will no longer be entitled to business cards. !!! Well, it is not that I have a great need for business cards. However, I do sometimes wonder how the management goes about selecting things to cut. A set of business cards [ READ MORE ]
You know what, I did not realise that anything untoward was happening within our opposition coalition. In fact, even after everyone started making a big fuss about MPs quitting and aligning themselves with the ruling coalition, I still did not feel like anything special was happening. Then it dawned on me – I have become [ READ MORE ]
According to Wikipedia: Wayang Kulit is a very unique form of theatre employing the principle of light and shadow. The puppets are crafted from buffalo hide and mounted on bamboo sticks. When held up behind a piece of white cloth, with an electric bulb or an oil lamp as the light source, shadows are cast [ READ MORE ]
I’m writing this blog entry to let others know what to do if they are ever annoyed by the red-tinted address bar that you get in IE8 when you try to visit a secure SSL website using a self-signed certificate. This is quite common in development environments. The straightforward thing to do, that every developer [ READ MORE ]
When someone swings a crude 100-pound bludgeon at you, what do you do? Some people duck and hide. I swing back. Some things happened at work today and I got caught in a massive political game. If there was some finesse in it, I would still be afraid of a knife in the dark. However, [ READ MORE ]
I am in a rather foul mood today and unfortunately, a few people moving objects got in my way today. Since I have an extremely low tolerance for stoopidity, I whacked a couple of heads today. The first one is someone who I gave a briefing to last week. Everything seemed fine and he seemed [ READ MORE ]
I am currently attending a short course conducted by Dr Bradley Jensen from Microsoft. I like him already. He was really honest when he stressed to us that CMMI is only good for one thing – documenting failures. That put our Director of Quality on the defensive. He added that this did not just apply [ READ MORE ]
I have been conducting some job interviews recently. It is ironic that someone who has never passed a job-interview in his life, is now conducting job interviews instead. My boss has some head-count to fill so we have been interviewing some candidates. However, the candidate that I had to interview today, takes the cake. First of [ READ MORE ]