notes and rants

This morning I was walking the dog and thinking about a few different projects I'm working on. I seem to always have 4-5 "big" projects going on and my thoughts tend to bounce between them. Often, when I let my mind wander like this, I come across some Read More...

I had a double major in college, but it was two highly related degrees. I had friends, however, who double majored in things like Economics and Music, or Psychology and Education, or Computer Science and Anthropology. You could argue whether the different Read More...

While I was traveling earlier this month, I read Dreaming in Code. I sat down to write this post thinking I was going to write a review of the book but 1) I don't like to write book reviews, and 2) this book has been reviewed to death. I do, however, Read More...

Shrini posted earlier this week asking about equivalence class partitioning (ecp). I posted some comments on his site, and wanted to elaborate a bit as a preamble to an upcoming post. Creating equivalence classes, in their most basic form, are something Read More...

I don't write much about my job at Microsoft. I'm in a weird role (weird for me, at least) where I'm not working on a product - I work in an organization that primarily does technical training for engineers within the company and works on various cross-company Read More...

こんにちわ。I am currently above the Pacific, about two hours outside of Narita airport in Tokyo. Next week I will be teaching a few courses at the Microsoft facility in the Tokyo area. Given my schedule of late, the long flight has been quite a break. I watched Read More...