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Nostalgia

Interviews with a couple Google Engineers

May 7, 2010

I was cleaning out old files from Google Docs and came across these two interviews I did with a couple Google engineers for NCWIT in 2008, just before I left Google. Portraits by Jason of course. The two things I remember vividly about the experience: 1) we had to sneak Jason’s photo equipment into the [...]

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Unsexy but Useful: American Heritage Dictionary iPhone App

April 9, 2010

This spring, it will be 10 years since I graduated from grad school. With all of the hoopla around the iPad, iPhone apps, Google Books and ubiquitous instantaneous information access in general, I keep imagining what it would be like to be  a grad student in English now. Back in 2000, I was thrilled to [...]

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In honor of the iPad launch

April 1, 2010

This has been around a while I’m told, but it’s still funny. A good reminder that books were once, at one point, new technology (via DRS).

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Me and B—–

March 2, 2010
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