davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.
A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.
You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.
But I do *really* like Tropicalia by Beck. Great song. Groovy. Guys got some trippy lines.
I saw a lot of this when working at Verizon. Basicly a department of Indian developers were told that if they did not meet a timeline (which was disgustingly unrealistic), that their H1-B’s would be revoked. They worked 24-7. If they needed your help on something, they called you at home at whatever hour. I’ve also heard stories of consulting firms bringing over foreign work, charge their clients $75/hour and pay the worker $12/hour. The whole thing really makes me sick