Happy birthday, GitHub!

GitHub is five years old.  I find it really difficult to believe that the service I rely on so heavily, both at work and at home, haven’t even been around so recently.  I use GitHub both at work, and at home.   In fact, every single piece of development I do, even if that’s just for a one time bash oneliner, I start it with a new git repository.  And more often than not, that repository ends up being pushed to GitHub.

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Happy birthday, guys!  Please keep doing what you are doing.  It obviously works for millions of people.

National Geographic competition and birthday

BigPicture blog runs not one, but two posts on National Geographic.  One is for their Photography Contest winners – and there are some trully amazing pictures, like the one of this bear.  And the other one is covering the upcoming 125th birthday of National Geographic.

brown bear

Happy birthday, Slashdot!

Slashdot, probably the most well-known technology news website, is celebrating its 15th birthday.  I can’t say that I’ve been reading it for 15 years (yet), but I’m pretty close.  If I remember correctly, Vladimir showed it to me some time back in 1998-1999.  I’ve followed it since.

Even today, with all the multitude of tech blogs and news outlets, Slashdot is still important to me.  While you can get the same kind of news elsewhere, the discussions are still the reason to go back.  Some are funny, some are obligatory, but mostly are insightful comments that show the original article’s problem  space from different perspectives.

Happy birthday, Slashdot!

Before and after : aging celebration

First of all, I’d like to thank everyone who called, emailed, tweeted, facebooked, skyped, or sent me birthday best wishes via any other means.  I got all of them, and it means the world to me.  One thing all my birthdays have in common is they remind me of all the wonderful people that I am surrounded by.  Thank you all.

Secondly, a few of my younger friends, inquired as to how is being 34 years old different from being 35 years old.  As easy as the question seems, the answer is quite complex.  To ease up with the explanations, I’ve decided to create the visual aid that you can see below (excuse my poor skills of a graphical designer).

As poor as the image quality is, I think, the illustration does answer the question.  Please feel free to let me know if you need any clarifications.

Thirdly, please don’t think bad of me for not inviting you to my birthday party.  There was none this year.  With Easter coinciding on the same Sunday, I felt it was slightly inappropriate to compete with religious celebrations.  Especially given the rainy weather and out-of-country trips for a few must-be-there guests.  Excuses, excuses, I know.  I was just too lazy to arrange all things in time.  Until the next year.

Once again, thank you all for warm words and wishes. I had a good one!