July 27 to 30 First impression: Athens is a huge city in a desert! When I flew in, it looked like I was flying into the Middle East. As far as I could see, there were brown hills with no sign of life. I was surprised not to see any tall buildings. Everything I [...]
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Jul
After almost 24 hours of travel, today I arrived in Athens! It’s warm here! After taking a bus from the airport to the city center and walking around for an hour, I found a hotel (Hotel Fivos) that has “hostel” rooms. Just a tiny single hotel room with a bathroom down the hall for only [...]
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Feb
It’s that time of the quarter to register again. I am personally not a fan of the UW’s registration system but what can you do but play the game and figure out how to win. I have had several quarters where I don’t get the classes I want, which is followed by the most stressful [...]
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Feb
On Friday I had my all-day final round interview at Microsoft for their Program Manager Intern position. It was a long day and I had a lot of fun answering the problems and meeting the Program Managers I met with so I thought I would document my experiences. Adding to the excitement of the day, [...]
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Feb
These are solutions to the two algorithmic questions I was asked in my Microsoft Program Manger Intern interview Convict’s Ransom Note The solution I came up with was to create an array of length 26 that will represent counts of letters in the ransom note. For example, if the note contains 4 letter ‘a’s, index 0 will be set [...]
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Sep
The mailing lists in Google Apps do not support automatic responses. I have come up with a solution using a mailing list and eMail account, outlined below. In this example, the address that users would send mail to is [email protected] This is a standard eMail address set up with a Vacation Responder (or Canned Response [...]
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May
Yesterday as I walked to campus to give a presentation, I was thinking about what I need in my life to be more successful. I decided I should make a living document of my wish list for future reference for me and the generous gift givers in my life (read: mom+dad). Here we go. Bag. [...]
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Apr
For Mina Yoo’s entrepreneurship 370 class, our group chose to do a study of Twenty20, a local company that makes wearable action sports cameras. Their products are becoming more popular and can often be seen in use on the slopes. Marc Barros, co-founder of the company, was kind enough to meet with us to answer [...]
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Mar
This week we had an interesting speaker come in to ENTRE 370 and I thought I’d share some notes. Paul Anderson has worked for Amazon and Microsoft in Human Resources and now owns his own career development firm, ProLango. He gave a very good talk on Monday; in my opinion, the best speaker we have [...]
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Jan
Apple announced its “latest creation” today and I have to say, I am not excited as I thought I would be. I have been warming up to the idea of netbooks but I am not embracing this technology at the onset. Steve said today in his keynote: “…the problem is that netbooks aren’t better than [...]
My Projects
- Continuing Minds - Personalized Computer Learning for Baby Boomers and Seniors
- iDONATEpro - Hosted CRM for Political Campaign Fundraisers