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I caught this on Jeremy’s blog earlier — it’s a reference to Tim O’Reilly’s blog posting with advice for Yahoo!.
So before I start let me give the standard disclamier:  I am writing as a normal person, not as a Yahoo! employee.  None of this reflects what my employer feels or thinks or is doing [...]

Again?  Really?  Sigh.
Can’t we just all be friends?  I guess not.  It is all business.

Update:  Ugh, I pushed the wrong button and deleted this post.  Reposting from memory and half of an unpublished version.
I have been using MyBlogLog for a while now.  I like it a lot.  I tried out FriendFeed the other day and it is basically the same thing as MyBlogLog, but not as nice.  And [...]

I admit I am no front-end web developer.  For me, writing code for a website is basically:

Does this work?  Yes.  Cool.
Does it really work?  Yes.  Awesome.
Does it look kind of decent?  Yes.  Nice!
Can I do some security stuff with it?  Kind of.  Good.

Yesterday was Crack Day at Yahoo! and I guess Alice was in [...]

Personality

Yes:  We’re still hiring at Yahoo!.
Yes:  I still get to do phone screens and interviews.
What I wanted to ask is:  How much does personality play into who you say “yes” and “no” to when doing a phone screen or interview.  The other day, I did a phone screen with a guy who’s resume looked [...]

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Don’t ask me about the whole Microsoft bid for Yahoo!.
No comment.
This is what I wrote about the rumors a year ago though.
If you’re really curious.  Read this.

Vista

I installed Windows Vista Home Premium on my main PC notebook.  I admit it.  I did it.  Yesterday.
While I loved having Fedora 8 — or in general any distro of Linux — on the notebook, I wanted to do stuff that I couldn’t do in Linux.  One of the big drivers was the fact [...]