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I just finished reading the two book series by Dan Simmons – “Olympos” and “Ilium”. Pretty decent reads, sort of like a successful fan fiction (lots of references to Shakespeare and to the Iliad).

I am reading Code by Charles Petzold right now. Really fascinating story of how computers work! It is not just dry technical information, Charles builds on each area really explaining and helping understand how everything works from core principles.

My birthday is today and I am fortunate to have received lots of messages from well-wishers, so thank you for those!

I can’t believe I am 33. That is a number hard to picture in my head. When you are 10, you can look at your fingers and know how old you are. When you are 21, you can look at your fingers and toes and … well you know.… read more “My birthday – 33 Anos!”

I am building a programmatic copy management system. My team writes 500 pages of copy each month. A page of copy is a Microsoft Word document, single space, 12 point font with the entire page filled.

So we write a lot of copy.

We are planning on writing even more for our many clients in the future, so I am working with my strategists and admin team to figure this out.

I have been having lots of meetings with a variety of partners lately. I have found it quite inspirational! Had talks about business with Levi, Dorothy, Jeremy, David P., my team members and many others!

I receive around 300 to 500 emails a day. Sometimes I feel like all I do is reply to emails. I have built a to do management application to make sure high priority stuff gets worked on first. I dislike it when email drives my priority list instead of what is truly important to get done.… read more “Mad Work”

I love to learn. I am constantly reading or trying new programming techniques or playing new games. I enjoy the challenge, and I enjoy improving myself.

As technology continues to advance at an exponentially increasing pace, mankind becomes more and more vulnerable to terrorist attacks by a single person or small group that has mass casualties numbering in the thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions.

In 1995, Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people and injured over 600 people acting on his own beliefs that the US government was a bully taking people’s freedoms.… read more “Major Terror Attacks”

 

I have noticed that when I wake up in the morning my nose feels all clogged up and my throat slightly swollen. I am not sick, I think it is allergies to my old dust and mite infested pillows. I am going to try to vacuum under my bed and also get new pillows and hopefully that will solve the issue.