The failure of Silicon Valley.

Working for Yahoo! in Burbank, one of the first things that happened to me was the suggestion that I should be transfered to another team–and moved to Silicon Valley. There appears to be an overall theme here at Yahoo! which is not just a problem with Y!, but with other Silicon Valley-based software companies as [...]

Filed under: Commentary | Posted on June 13th, 2007 by William Woody | No Comments »

What’s wrong with Safari for Windows

Much has been made about Safari for Windows looking like hell. Here’s my take, as a Mac fan: it looks like hell. Here’s what’s wrong: (1) The Gamma on Microsoft Windows is considerably darker than on the Macintosh. To review, the gamma is essentially the exponent used to adjust the color (from 0 to 1) [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Posted on June 12th, 2007 by William Woody | No Comments »

Welcome to Hell.

Me: I’m just interested in getting a local sandbox going on my dev box so I can build your component, that way I can scope out the level of effort needed to make our recommended changes. Them: I don’t understand, you want to make changes to the dev build? Me: I just want a local [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Posted on June 4th, 2007 by William Woody | No Comments »

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