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Me and Sergey

Me and Sergey Brin
Me and Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google

One of those nerdy cool things, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, spoke at my search engine class. I got a photo with him.

From Wikipedia:

“Sergey Brin (born August 1973 in Moscow, Russia) is an American entrepreneur. Born in Russia, Brin studied computer science and mathematics before co-founding Google with Larry Page. Brin is the President of Technology at Google and has a net worth estimated at seven billion U.S. dollars.”

Update: Newscenter had a story on it. “Google cofounder Sergey Brin comes to class at Berkeley“

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Me and Sergey


Me and Sergey
Originally uploaded by enlewof.

One of those nerdy cool things, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, spoke at my search engine class. I got a photo with him.

From Wikipedia:
“Sergey Brin (born August 1973 in Moscow, Russia) is an American entrepreneur. Born in Russia, Brin studied computer science and mathematics before co-founding Google with Larry Page. Brin is the President of Technology at Google and has a net worth estimated at seven billion U.S. dollars.”

Update: Newscenter had a story on it. “Google cofounder Sergey Brin comes to class at Berkeley“

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Anti-spam people sending spam messages

So I check the Calstuff mailbox today (calstuff [at] gmail dot com) and see a message from Judy_Thompson@bluebottle.com.

Hi there,

I would like to ask you to exchange links between yours and ours sites. As you probably know this will provide your visitors with valuable resources, as well as it would do for us. We can place your site in category of our resource page, suitable for it, and with a good Google Page Rank, easily accessible from our index page. If you would like to swap links please send me your website details, and if not, excuse me for wasting your time and have a great day.

Best Regards,
Sandra Hollan

So I decide to check out what BlueBottle offers. Guess what they do? Spam filters. Geez, can’t even trust the guys who are suppose to protect you.

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Seeking Employment

I’m now employed by the College Writing Department here at Berkeley. I work as a Media Liaison (actually student assistant, but my boss told me that was my title). I’ll be building the web site for a professor’s R&C class, and helping out with her general technology like setting up laptops, and Mac troubleshooting. Should be fun and easy.

Meanwhile, I just set up a new website: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~alew/wordpress/. I’m basically using it as kind of portfolio and collecting ground for the things I’ve done so far, and trying to use it as a marketing platform for myself (like I don’t do that enough already). Hope I can maintain it.

Edit: I just wanted to mention that while the site was built by me, all the components were built by someone else; I just put them together to me. The blogging software, the extra functions, and even the design were made by someone else. The joys of open source software and sharing allow this, which makes it ultra-fabulous. I describe this more in the About this site page.

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Welcome

Welcome to my new website. Hope you enjoy it.

There are a couple of issues that need work. Bear with me while I try to get them fixed.

To those of you who read may have read my other personal blog, no I have not abandoned it. In fact, I am in the process of trying to find a way of integrating the two together.

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All those classes

Berkeley Newscenter was just a redesigned way of giving out press releases for UC Berkeley launched a few years ago. Sometimes presentation means a lot and it definetly makes it a lot easier to find things.

Sometimes they profile classes that the students are taking and for some reason, in recent semesters, a couple of the classes they profile, I have taken or am taking. Here’s the for the search engine class I’m taking, one for my earth resources class, and one with my bioethics professor. Probably near every class and professor are being highlighted or were highlighted at some point, but the fact that it happened when I was encountering them…it kind of makes me wonder if I’m being stalked by Newscenter (j/k).

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Over the hurdle

So I finally turned 21 last Friday. There now no more age barriers for me in this country except to rent a car and to run for president. As best as I can piece together, my birthday involved jumping in the pool with the heater off, getting a massive headache in the afternoon, and lots of vomiting. Yeah, you get the idea.

One of the things I was thinking about was how fast do we really “grow up.” As soon as the number changes on our age, does that make our maturity, preferences, or child like tendencies disappear? Not really. They are out grown, but not in the blink of an eye. I was wondering as a kid how could I live differently from how I lived before. To be honest, I don’t think I do very much, but I can see it changing and changing more. Geez, it’s scary.

Edit: I forgot to mention my friend Wenjie came over unexpectedly for a job interview in San Francisco. I hadn’t seen her for a really long time.

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My interview with running back Tiki Barber from the New York Giants is up this week. I had a blast doing it.

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Is charity a good thing?

When you were a little kid, I think the answer was a resounding yes. But sometimes though, too much can be problematic for people. From Slate:

Two reasons we might want to rethink the policy of giving federal assistance to disaster victims. It encourages people to live in dangerous places, and it denies people the opportunity to accept higher risks in exchange for lower housing costs. Those abstract principles might be partly offset by any number of real world considerations. But if we want to build a better world, no truth should be ignored.

Interesting points. Nonetheless, a monumental challenge is the disaster that I still felt the need to donate. I contributed to a Louisiana food bank I found on this list of charities. A great livejournal writer posted about all the things colleges were doing to help. It really brings out the power of the community on LJ.