An ironically popular theme in social media lately is “Smartphones have made people antisocial!”, often illustrated with a photo of a bunch of people who happen to be standing or sitting near each other, all heads-down, engrossed in whatever is happening on their phones. There is usually accompanying text, some sanctimonious, head-shaking statement about how … Continue reading Those Anti-Social Smartphones
I have never been much of a housekeeper, nor cared to be. I grew up in times and places where many people (not just wealthy ones) had live-in servants. My parents both had jobs, and someone else was paid to take care of cleaning, cooking, gardening, etc. When we lived in the US during my … Continue reading Mimma Meets an Atheist
I started working at Joyent on December 1st, 2010, as the Director of Training. My task was to lead the creation of three levels of training materials: for end users of the Joyent public cloud for customers who were buying SmartDataCenter and using it to run their own clouds for systems integrators and others who … Continue reading What I Did at Joyent
Once upon a time at a small software company in Italy, I worked in an office full of women. This had come about because our CEO had gone to Silicon Valley, eventually taking with him all the (male) engineers, leaving behind the company’s administrative and accounting staff (all women), a graphic artist (woman), one language … Continue reading The Taming of Mr A
When I was growing up in Bangkok in the late 60’s, Thailand’s beaches were not yet much of a tourist destination. Even Pattaya Beach was unspoiled and seemed barely used (I know that will be beyond the imagining of anyone who first saw it from the late 70’s on). We used to drive down there … Continue reading Beach Memories
