Bits and kibbles
Jakob Nielsen does some serious analysis on his logfiles! I'm mainly familiar with Zipf curves as they apply to vocabulary usage: typically half the words used in a book are used only once, one quarter are used twice, etc. But the dozen or so most-used words in a book (a, an, the) occur far more often than Zipf predicts, just like Google is five times as popular as a source of hits to Nielsen's pages than Zipf would predict. So I think Zipf isn't exactly the right curve after all.
Wil Wheaton does it again! You think his essay can't get any crazier, then he finds a new seam of ore in his Crazy Mine.
The Master Contract for my online work (for a company that I'll be calling "𝔾" on this blog). The blue text is the other guy's changes. I think this contract makes it clear why lawyers hate me! Unfortunately, this work doesn't pay well enough to support my family and I still need to find a day job.
A severance deal with ℱ was eventually worked out at the end of May(!), so I currently have what amounts to a no-show job that continues to pay my salary until the end of July. Meanwhile, there's more work I might do for ℱ in the fall. There's an OEM customer of theirs whose products I've worked on for years. Their contract requires ℱ to do a new product for them by the end of this year. They recently found out that this year's product will have to be done using an obsolete hardware platform. I'm one of the only engineers in the world who knows about that old stuff and is still interested in working for ℱ, and there's a mountain of old software (in Arabic, much of it stuff I wrote) that needs amending in only a few short months. Hiring me to do this work is the only sensible move, but for ℱ… I'm thinking it's less than 50% likelihood that I'll get the job. They'll probably end up telling the customer that the project just can't be done (ℱ hates being cornered).
That meme-filling form (that giza suggested I write) is continuing its popularity. 20 hits came in during the last minute! But only 577 in the last hour. Meanwhile my new write your own meme has gotten *zero* hits-absolutely no one but me has ever clicked on the Submit button. I guess I need to advertise it on one of those meme-spreading LJ communities.
Wil Wheaton does it again! You think his essay can't get any crazier, then he finds a new seam of ore in his Crazy Mine.
The Master Contract for my online work (for a company that I'll be calling "𝔾" on this blog). The blue text is the other guy's changes. I think this contract makes it clear why lawyers hate me! Unfortunately, this work doesn't pay well enough to support my family and I still need to find a day job.
A severance deal with ℱ was eventually worked out at the end of May(!), so I currently have what amounts to a no-show job that continues to pay my salary until the end of July. Meanwhile, there's more work I might do for ℱ in the fall. There's an OEM customer of theirs whose products I've worked on for years. Their contract requires ℱ to do a new product for them by the end of this year. They recently found out that this year's product will have to be done using an obsolete hardware platform. I'm one of the only engineers in the world who knows about that old stuff and is still interested in working for ℱ, and there's a mountain of old software (in Arabic, much of it stuff I wrote) that needs amending in only a few short months. Hiring me to do this work is the only sensible move, but for ℱ… I'm thinking it's less than 50% likelihood that I'll get the job. They'll probably end up telling the customer that the project just can't be done (ℱ hates being cornered).
That meme-filling form (that giza suggested I write) is continuing its popularity. 20 hits came in during the last minute! But only 577 in the last hour. Meanwhile my new write your own meme has gotten *zero* hits-absolutely no one but me has ever clicked on the Submit button. I guess I need to advertise it on one of those meme-spreading LJ communities.