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One day we will will tell our grandchildren . . .
One day we will tell our grandchildren how difficult it was to look up information in a library when we were kids.
We will tell them about card catalogues and the Dewey decimal system. We’ll tell them how we would look up a word in the dictionary and it would tell us to “see” another word.
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About Eric Wroolie
Eric Wroolie is a software developer specialising in project Outsourcing and Offshoring.
As a software developer since 1998, he has built applications for Barclays Capital, BBC, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank and Omega Logic.
In 2004, he founded Overpass, a company that provides offshoring services to UK and US organisations.
He is a San Diego native who has spent the last 10 years living in England and working in London.
Eric speaks Chinese Mandarin and served in the US Army as a Mandarin and Vietnamese linguist.
In addition to being able to speak Mandarin, Eric can juggle three balls for almost twenty seconds, and make fart noises using his hands only (this is more difficult than it sounds-- try it).
Eric has an MCSD in Visual Basic 6 and previous languages, but now works with .Net. He holds ScrumMaster Certification with Scrum Alliance.
Eric on Twitter
- My Orange mobile signal keeps dropping. There is a problem in our area which will be resolved Friday. Lots of CVs sent out, but no phone. 1 day ago
- 4 mile run this morning and my legs felt like lead. 1 day ago
- Spent the last few hours tweaking the Lightword theme on the ol' blog. Nearly 1pm and still in pajamas. Sundays . . . 4 days ago
- Chrome is my favourite browser and I've been using it for over a year, but now it crashes and freezes up all the time. Very irritating. 5 days ago
- If India is cracking down on Skype and VPNs, surely that will be an impediment to offshoring. http://ow.ly/2xJyj 1 week ago
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