Life-in-Progress

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Wendy Laments for the Lost Boys

Posted by Alora Posted on May - 08 - 2009

This week has been a bit of a melancholy week: my former team at Massive (acquired by Microsoft in 2006) has found themselves almost all the victims of radically changing economic conditions. As part of Microsoft’s plan to reduce several thousand jobs in 2009, their Massive division has been almost entirely cannibalized. Aside from the  [ Read More ]

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Californians, New Yorkers and Texans

Posted by admin Posted on Mar - 31 - 2009

There is a strange phenomenon that Californians, New Yorkers and Texans have in common with each other that they rarely have in common with people from most other parts of the country: a sort of territorial, geo-centric affiliation. New Yorkers are routinely criticized by everyone else as being arrogant and thinking that New York is  [ Read More ]