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Paperwork for the unborn
I’m stepping away from Google for a couple of months of paternity leave. Today was my last day at work until the end of March. It’s interesting how much bureaucracy such a simple action puts into motion! Forms to be filled for HR, signed by 3 people. The state and the medical benefits companies must…
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Yahoo admins conceed that Google is the better search engine
In a surprising statement, two Yahoo! executives admitted that they have lost the search battle to Google. There are a number of rumours as to why Yahoo! might announce something like this. Their earnings statement released last week fell far short of analysts’ hopes, that their stop dropped 12%. It still has not recovered. Maybe…
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Cry babies
I released today, that there are some really whiny bastards out there. You know the kind I’m talking about, the kind that complain for the sake of complaining. Take for example, this page at digg.com. In 2005, Linksys modified the hardware of their popular WRT54G line of broadband routers. The new hardware was cheaper, and…
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Overbearing governments
As many people are aware, Google was sent a subpeona by the US Department of Justice last week. The details of this subpeona are quite public and there are many discussions on the matter already. I’d like to instead, bring forward the issue of overbearing governments. It is accepted truth that since the start of…
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Powerbooks, and what happens when they stop working
It sucks, that’s what happens. It really bloody well sucks. So here I am, 3am, reading an advisory to upgrade iTunes and Quicktime due to known vulnerabilities. I start the software update… it runs, and runs, and runs. Eventually it asks if I’d like to reboot. I say yes, it says “Nu uh”. Anyone want…
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Are you looking for a job?
Google’s hiring. We need people who are willing to relocate to Oregon for systems admin / data center engineer positions. There’s a lot of growth inside the company, lots of room to learn and earn more. A lot of people ask me what it’s liek to work at Google. I’m hard pressed to find anything…
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A hunting a will go…
There have been many reports over the last few months on Google’s search for a new executive chef. Our previous chef, Charlie Ayers (former chef to The Greatful Dead), left last year. The San Jose Mercury News published an article by one of the remaining contenders, Steve Petusevsky. It’s a good read, and goes into…
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New friends from old places
It seems I’m finding more people at companies I used to work for now, than before I left. Just last night I stumbled upon the blog of icmp, who works at EarthLink. I wish I’d known her back then, she seems like quite a nice person from her blog. Groups of people at Google who…
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Bundles of joy
There’s been a lot of discussion over the last few days, focused of course on last Friday’s CES announcements. My personal take on the matter is that the Google Pack will be quite useful to a great many people. The ability to have the computer keep itself up-to-date is long overdue. Microsoft’s Automatic Updates for…
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Horde and IMP
Squirrelmail was getting getting on my nerves. Sadly its development seems to have stagnated in the last few years. A pity really, it wasn’t bad software. I hadn’t used IMP on the Horde framework in a couple of years so I thought I would give it a try. The (old) version in FreeBSD’s ports collection…
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