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Gayle – Cracking the Coding Interview, already on its 4th edition! Gayle, you need to get this on the Kindle.

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Emphasis mine.

Who knew that the oil spill was sponsored by Microsoft?

Really?

The first action is inaction.  If you feel indifferent, or lazy, or if the “friend” is just an “acquaintance”, you can do nothing.  You might feel like a voyeur (or stalker-lite) for peeking into someone’s life without being an active part of it, but that’s what social networks are all about (e-stalking).  This is also about as passive as you can get on facebook.

If you feel strongly for or against the status, or if you follow this flowchart, you may choose to post a comment.  This is about as aggressive as you can get in a virtual environment short of throwing punches in super poke.

If you feel less strong FOR the status, but would still want to alert the poster so that they know that you know that they’re up to something, then you can “like” their status.  This is a passive-aggressive “like”.

If you feel weakly AGAINST the status, however, all you can do is “hide” their status (but hide actually has a different semantic meaning both in the term itself, and the actions that facebook takes once you hide something).  The original poster will never know that you hid their status, and any passive-aggresiveness that only one person is aware of is no aggressiveness at all.

Hence the asymmetry.

Do you want to learn Spanish (or English if you’re a Spanish speaker – although I doubt you’d be here if you were a non-English speaking Spanish speaker), then see how you can start learning English or Spanish today.

May-02

(Road) S. Lake Washington -> Cedar River Trail -> Tiger Mountain -> Leschi – 64 miles.

May-09

(Road) Same as above – 64 miles

May-10

(Mtn) Tapeworm – 4 miles

May-16

(Road) Whidbey Island – 72 miles

May-23

(Mtn) Tiger Mountain – 12 miles

May-25

(Mtn) Rat Pac – 12 miles

May-30

(Road) Bainbridge Island – 44 miles

May-31

(Mtn) Tokul East – 8-10 mile range

Jun-06

(Mtn) Paradise Valley – 11-13 mile range

Jun-07

(Road) TWBC Peninsula Metric Century – 69 miles

I’m taking a break this weekend as I head home to Canada, but am looking for other trail suggestions for the coming weekends.

Once the manic burst of building has stopped and the whirlwind has slowed, the secrets of Dubai are slowly seeping out. This is a city built from nothing in just a few wild decades on credit and ecocide, suppression and slavery. Dubai is a living metal metaphor for the neo-liberal globalised world that may be crashing – at last – into history.

Reminds me of this video on real estate in Dubai.

They’re a little expensive, but the concept of these lights are very cool.  Maybe this will be a DIY project.