I find this filming style great for a few scenes, to create contrast, (Saving the Private Ryan?), but when it’s the whole film, it just makes me wanna puke.

I’ve been feeling that way for a long time already, but I just want to say it out loud: I love my job!

It’s challenging, interesting, I work with extremely smart and nice people, the environment is productive while extremely relaxed, the Google offices all around the world and the working conditions definitely live up to all the good rumors about them, and I’m given the freedom to work on what I’m interested in.

A couple of days ago I was showing an engineering director how to compile and find his way through some code to help him start contributing in his spare time. I don’t know many companies where this would happen so naturally.

I thought that after 2.5 years of working in this company I’d have found at least a few things I disliked, but I didn’t. I’m sorry, this is gonna sound like some public relation person told me to say this, but I didn’t find any (maybe apart from the legendary Google fifteen). I just love my job.

Looks like some people are working on actually implementing what I half-jokingly called the Hadopi Router (aka Butterfly router in English) to protests about a French law.

This is starting to get interesting. I must say I was more hoping for a changing law rather than for an actual device, but I’m curious about what they’ll make of it. I did receive plenty of responses from that website from people asking if it would become available at some point…

Why do so many people use the word “nazi” metaphorically? This word has a very specific meaning in a very specific historical context. I think it’s dangerous to use it beyond its proper meaning.

There will be a time when all the victims and close parents of victims of the holocaust will have died out, and when the word “nazi” doesn’t really mean anything any more. When that time comes, everything will be ready for the world to see real nazis appear again, in whatever form will be most likely at that time.

This word is one of the few things that are left to remember what was probably the greatest tragedy of History (I think I am objective in saying that, my education, family and background being completely a-religious), I would love to see it stay intact.

I’m struck by the fact that, very often, the features that are advertised as a product’s killer assets are just lies hiding the fact that the product is crap.

• Why do I have the feeling that all these products I’ve seen in developing countries with well-known brands on them and a large “Genuine” printed somewhere are counterfeits? It doesn’t sound to me like the real brand would print “Genuine” on their products
• In the old days where operating systems were advertised as having “tons of software” for it, you could be sure that that particular operating system did not have the piece of software you needed.
• A company in France that is well known for its ads showing off their great customer service has the worst customer service ever.
• A large part of today’s adults in China show a severe lack of education and knowledge precisely because of the “Cultural Revolution”.

An equal amount of skepticism takes over me when I see today’s oh-so-hype “green” concepts and products.

I think we should all do a better job at taking how things are “sold” to us with shiny names with a grain of salt.