Category: Latest Happenings

  • Yahoo! Developer Day Conference

    It is hard to remember not to make any mention of pants, even if I know what it means in British English. Beyond telling Murray Rowen that I liked his underwear in front of a crowd of people, I recently went to London to speak at the Front-end Summit being held there. I gave two…

  • Stubbornella joins the exceptional performance team at Yahoo!

    Today was my first day at Yahoo. I spent most of the day in orientation but I am already impressed with the culture. People seem genuinely happy and able to make working hard a part of living well. And damn they’re smart! Fabulous well-rounded geeks. I know, I know, it sounds like I’ve been drinking…

  • I finally tried a Segway!

    I’ve wanted to try one for years, and i finally got the opportunity today. It rocked every bit as much as I thought it might. Hugo noticed that the “turtle” speed was indicated. I found that it was pretty zippy, which makes me wonder what it would be like on the normal setting.

  • Parisian “responsable”

    I’ve been offered a chance to manage my team during a transition, so I am heading back to Paris temporarily. Having previously been principally a project manager rather than team manager I’m excited for both the new challenge and, of course, the chance to reconnect with my excellent team.

  • Hugo & I have moved to California

    And in honor of that I have added a new category “An American in California”, though I go back and forth about how much Parisian is in there after four years of proving Darwin was wrong about me. I leave there knowing how to speak French, push in the subway, dance salsa, build enormous websites,…

  • More Salsa

    Youssef promised that if I tried salsa dancing for one month twice a week by the end of the month I would be able to dance more or less. And he was right. Who would have thought? I’m so maladroit I don’t think I really believed him, but its so much fun that I didn’t…

  • La Coupole

    Hier soir, je suis allee a la Coupole pour faire deux cours du salsa avec Seve et Mouaze. Le premier etait un vrai cours debutant. Nous avons passes une heure entier sur les pates base. A la dernier minute il a rajoute un tourne super simple s’appelle la “Dile que no !“, que on a…

  • L’Atelier – Noissy Le Grand

    I tried salsa dancing for the first time last sunday at L’Atelier.

  • BBC Sex I.D. test

    I finally got my results from the slightly broken (only test 6 and the results section) BBC brain sexID test. It turns out I am 50% male, 50% female. Not that much of a surprise, I may be a carpenter, but I still love pink.

  • Why don’t you challenge the trimming?

    I’m soaked, the bathroom is soaked, several towels are soaked. Yes, my bichon has had a bath. I’ve learned to wash him without wearing any pants because I end up so wet that my clothes are unsalvageable. He is a bichon fortement type. Which means he really looks like a bichon frise. This makes me…