They're baaacck! If you've ever cast envious glances at someone else's smart-device everytime you heard the kamikaze scream of the birds going at the pigs, fret no more.  The birds and pigs go at it, now in HD in your very own browser. Point your browser to http://chrome.angrybirds.com/ and enjoy the mayhem. Firefox is a bit flaky (apparently) but Chrome works just fine.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I wanna get back to find those blasted fruits to unlock the golden egg levels.

"Two fish are in a tank. One turns to the other and asks 'How do you drive this thing?" 

I just love this joke. It's subtle, irritating, and above all requires that you be capable of lateral thinking to consider the alternate meaning of the word "tank" despite this context. Which got me thinking, "How many people would get it and what does it mean if they don't get it?"

I think its an awesome item to be included in an interview. I'm one of those managers who evaluates candidates by asking some roundabout questions, simply because I want to be able to gauge a person's abilities and personality, not just their ability to regurgitate facts and figures. So, in my interviews I incorporate some Google questions such as, "Say you have 8 balls of equal proporations except one that is slightly heavier. If you're given a weighing balance, what's the minimal number of steps required to find the heavy ball?"

You might ask, "WTF does that have to do with software development?" In a nutshell, everything. Software development is not only about math, code, and an overkill of acronyms. It's fundamentally about solving problems, and applying logic and common sense to arrive at the optimal solution. In fact, I often tell people that some of the best programmers aren't the people who have the highest math scores. The best programmers are those who have the best command of English grammatically.

As you can plainly see, its been quite a while since my last blog post. Mind you, its not for a lack of interest (I can almost see all the people going "Yeah Right!"). Say what you will, but sometimes the muse can decide take off without warning and no amount of false starts and trying can change it otherwise.

Well, thats not completely true. You can write stuff, but it ends up being such pathetic crap that you end up scrapping the whole thing and generally shelving blogging for a while, all the time thinking "Don't worry I'll get it done later".

And then one day three years later, you wake up and go "Screw it. Let's just get it back up." Of course in the intervening 3 years, you have changed along with your attitudes and perspectives, and if you're someone like me whose livelihood involves building internet stuff, you start feeling "Hmmm... Let me get a new design on as well." Which ends up taking another 2 weeks.

But in this intervening period, something awful has happened... you've changed!!! You've grown as a person, your persona has evolved, you've developed new interests... and all that somehow gets in the way of getting back to blogging...