Posted by bostjan, under zemanta on February 28th, 2008
setting: headquarters@8pm. There is still a couple of Zemantors left wandering around the office. Someone cryies out:
CTO: “Ha! found it!”
UI: “what?”
CTO: “Look, I’ve found a bug in the API or in the documentation of the API”
UI: “put it in the bugtracker”
CTO: “not ours, in Flickr…”
Posted by bostjan, under zemanta on February 27th, 2008
I hate cables. Power cables, data cables, hubs, splitters, connectors, I hate them. I feel like a monkey everytime I have to plug my nifty ultra portable laptop to 5-7 cables in order to start working normally. After that it looks like an octopus.
Today we had another intersting problem with cables – we had to [...]
Posted by bostjan, under zemanta on February 26th, 2008
The last time I was explaining to a girl friend about the crazy working hours in a startup, occasional adrenalin rushes, beating the competition, irregular sleep and regular food, important life lessons learned and lack of women in the process, she replied simply: “Well, guys used to go to the army, now you go to [...]
Posted by bostjan, under zemanta on February 20th, 2008
OK, liveblogging from Second Chance Tuesday with Niklas Zenstromm, well, quasy-live, since the internet doesn’t work, as it’s suppose to be at a decent web conference. Anyway, some funny highlights as they were happenin’…
As the moderator has recognized corretly, it feels like 1999 all over again. Niklas is a looser! Had a job, finished his [...]
Posted by bostjan, under zemanta on February 11th, 2008
After exactly two months on the Continents (old and new one) we’ve visited midlands of London again. I was surprised that walking around town felt less annoying than I remembered.
We were there for a great party, organized by our lawyers under the roof of The Gherkin Building. Since we were in town, the weather was [...]