Category Archives: Work

While I told a few of my friends that I had been rejected by Google, I never publicly announced this fact. I think it’s a little unfair to my readers here, so, well, here you go, I got rejected. ;)

[We] have scheduled you for 2 technical phone interviews on January 22. The first is with Rob Konigsberg from 1:00pm PT – 1:45pm PT and the second with Rob Clevenger from 2:00 pm PT – 2:45pm PT. They will contact … Continue reading →

Starting tomorrow, I’ll only have two more weeks of work left to go. It’s been a lot of fun and I think that we’ve really made something special here, but it’s also been extremely draining on my part. That statement … Continue reading →

I’m typing this blog post inside the ILC (IBM Learning Center) at the moment. It’s pretty much free time for the Canadian teams until the 1530 meet-up of all Extreme Blue teams back at the auditorium. I’m just catching up … Continue reading →

Alexei’s going to be by with the airport cab at around 0545 to pick me up for our flight to Toronto at 0730. I set my cell phone’s alarm at 0445 and I have to say that I’m pretty awake … Continue reading →

We’ll be having our local expo at IBM Ottawa’s Palladium Lab today. The two Extreme Blue teams from Montreal will be down here with us so there are going to be four teams in total pitching and demoing and answering … Continue reading →

In an attempt to comply with IBM’s BCGs (a TLA, three-letter acronym, that stands for ‘Business Conduct Guidelines’, which ironically when you think about it the company’s name too is a TLA), I have switched my wallpaper. Igor still disagreed … Continue reading →

I was talking to Nitin a few days ago and my wallpaper post got brought up and he noted that I should’ve linked to my “offending” wallpaper in my post. It hadn’t occurred to me that those of you that … Continue reading →

A week or two ago, one of the technical interns from the other EB team asked me if I’ve ever considered starting my startup after finding out that I’m actually an Eclipse committer. I pretty much just shrugged it off. … Continue reading →

Yesterday I was told to make sure I changed my wallpaper before I start demoing to people because an anime character isn’t exactly the best of ideas. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t reflect well on me professionally, but I guess … Continue reading →