full fathom five: Tag 2007

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Michael Studman — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:03:00 -0400

Poem: A famous Chinese poem with translation - by one of China’s most famous ancient poets - Li Bai.

Quote: John de Francis on the nature of Chinese characters Repeat after me: “Chinese characters are words, not pictogaphs”.

For those who don’t know, I’ve been studying Mandarin on and off since about 1999. I’m shite at it, but not as shite as some. It’s time to share my reading material with everyone else in the hope we all get less shite together.

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Michael Studman — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:30:00 -0400

Quote: Nerds and coolness

Proof: Elvis Lives!

Ramble: Recycling vs Consuming Less

What the fuck is a tublelog? The wiki gods sayeth this. I just hope it gets me blogging more often.

Cenqua: here I come

Michael Studman — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:29:59 -0500

The rumours are true, come the new year I’ll be starting with Cenqua - the creators of Fisheye, Clover & Crucible. I’ll be working remotely for them from my little corner of north London or to put it another way, I’ll be their premier UK employee. ;) My task will be to design, develop and support new and existing software development tools you will actually use.

This move has been a long time in the making - I first interviewed with them (a beer in hand, if I recall) back in the middle of the dot-com crash when they were transitioning from a service company to a product company. Unfortunately, like many, they’d just laid off staff and weren’t in a position to take me on. More recently this year I did some work for them but found my 9-5 racket was proving too exhausting to deliver anything substantial or on-time. Now the timing seems right for me to come on board full time.

You gotta love a company that calls its head office the “Central Command” and describes my role as “Senior Software Engineer / Architect / Code Poet”.

Matt, Conor, Brendan and Pete - thanks for giving me the chance to work on some great products! I can’t wait!