about tony (tony@ponderer.org)
It seems a bit vain writing about myself, but I suppose it’s possible that you, the reader, may want to know something about me.
I’m a software engineer working for Google.com since the fall of 2004. I spent about a year and a half working in the ads quality group, about a year working on things related to Firefox, and am currently working on Google Chrome.
Before I started at Google, I spent a summer working for IBM as an extreme blue intern.
I have a Master’s degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where I worked with Brian Bailey in the HCI research group. Specifically, I did some work in attentional interfaces, software designed to help users manage interruptions. During my formative undergraduate years, I went to Miami University of Ohio and spent my latter years attempting to build community on western campus.
On this site, I blog about things I think are interesting in technology. I also write software and release it free for other to deride for it’s poor quality. In particular, I’m the author of Webnote, which is much more popular than I ever imagined it would be.
I also maintain a couple (unofficial)
RSS
feeds— one of Margaret Cho’s blog
and one of angryasianman
.
If I’m not at a computer, then I’m probably at a music concert. I attend a fair number of indie rock and indie pop shows.
I also have a livejournal where I make lots of friends only entries.
I subscribe to the blogs and feeds listed below (sharing some PageRank love).
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action/adventure/dream
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Adam Bosworth's Weblog
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angry asian man
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Ernie's 3D Pancakes
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Free Culture blog
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Margaret Cho's Blog
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NeilChilson.com
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OK/Cancel
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Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity
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news.spacing-guild.net - travelling without moving
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Where's Perry?
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What's Up With Xbox Media Center
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FemaleCSGradStudent
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Usable Security
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Alertbox: Jakob Nielsen's Column on Web Usability
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Ugh
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apophenia
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del.icio.us
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jnd.org
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Spacefem.com Feminist Of The Day
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Fury.com
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Google Blog
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Greaseblog
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Guido van Rossum's Weblog
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Inside Firefox
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Jeffrey Veen
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Lessig Blog
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little. yellow. different.
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Everybody loves Eric Raymond
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Journal
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Megatokyo News
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Mike's Blog
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Nelson's Weblog
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Creating Passionate Users
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persistent.info
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QuirksBlog
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sacrelicious dot arrrgh
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The Nation: All Weblogs
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vedana
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ViennaTeng.com: Scrapbook
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youngpup.net
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wethrift: Lemonaid Health (ad)