Hey kids, it's time once again for the shower meme! vvvexation asked me the following five questions. If you'd like me to ask you five questions that you'll then post (soliciting interviewees as well), leave a comment on this post. 1. What's your favorite Hitchcock film? Alfred Hitchcock has an impressive résumé of outstanding films, but Rear Window is my ( Read more... )

I spent over five hours interviewing at Google's Boulder office yesterday. My visit came about a month after I submitted my résumé, via a connection who referred me, to Google's famously challenging hiring process. Before I arrived at Google's office, I'd had my résumé selected from a large pool (which is probably full of bad programmers), had a ( Read more... )

Cleaning out my inbox, I remembered clarsa had asked me five questions a couple months ago. In case you're new, the shower meme involves answering questions. Readers can then leave a comment and ask for five questions from me, which you'll answer in your journal with an equivalent offer for interviews. 1) If it were possible to make a tv show of your ( Read more... )

In a few months, the shower meme will have been making the LiveJournal rounds for six years. In case you're new, here's how it works:

1. slyviolet asked me the following five questions (that I almost forgot about).
2. I post the answers in my journal.
3. If you want an interview from me, leave a comment.
4. I'll respond with five questions.
5. You'll post the answers in ( Read more... )

Major Reid Sawyer is a leading American authority on Al Qaeda. He is based at the United States Military Academy at West Point and wrote the textbook on counter terrorism methods. On the eve of a major new World Service series about Al Qaeda, Owen Bennett-Jones talks to Major Sawyer about who is winning the war on terror. And gets some surprising ( Read more... )