Matisyahu's Blog

End of another week and enjoying my weekend off – I decided to work from home on Saturday rather than going into the office because the light in the office keeps turning off resulting in me having to jump up and down to get the sensor to turn on the light. In a normal functioning universe the building owner would put in this marvel of technology called a light switch which one would turn on when entering the area and when one leaves one turns it off – I guess it’ll be years before this marvel of technology makes its way to our office building. With all that being said, I did enjoy working from home and I had some left over coffee and combine that with the relaxed vibe I’ve got setup in my office I’m a pretty happy chap. I am looking at eventually getting myself a coffee machine of some sort so I have everything I need in my home office.

On my usual browsing through the internet I found an interesting discussion over on Y Combinator forum regarding Windows NT lower level design and from that (like too good things) someone linked to this interesting blog post regarding low level parts of Windows (link). Quite an interesting read and does a good job undermining the whole ‘Windows sucks’ shtick that dominate the forums, predominately by people who aren’t all that informed other than having a habit of repeating what they heard because it reenforces preconceived notions they already have.

Tonight after work I went for a 10km walk – a little longer than normal but it feels good working out after dealing with challenging customers all day particularly those who believe they’re special snowflakes and that the rules don’t apply to them. The walk allows me to clear my head and come back refreshed – rather than dealing with scenarios going through my head all night I can drift off to sleep and enjoy a restful shuteye.