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The headline is Recession hits Silicon Valley as layoffs pile up and yet it fails to fully capture how the landscape has changed so rapidly in the last half a year. I was looking at my career options back then and was shocked to find just how much demand there was in the market. It seemed like the R word wasn’t going to ever be spoken in the tech sector. A few months ago, I was calling friends at Yahoo and other places, and trying to convince them to come work with me. While I wasn’t entirely unsuccessful, it was a non-trivial argument to make (which based on what you read in the press would seem impossible at least for Yahoos). This month…

It’s been far too long since I have posted, and that made me think that my next post ought to be grand and meaningful, which in turn lead to even more time before a post was made. Instead, I’m going to start off with something completely trivial. I thought I ought to point out that after at least a decade of growing violent video game use and declining crime rates, the notion that there is some kind of relationship between the two is getting some serious debunking. It turns out you can let your five year-old play GTA all day without having to worry about them growing up to be hitmen. Note to parents: probably still not a great idea to have a five year-old play GTA all day. ;-)