This whole "work in West Hollywood and live by LAX" thing isn't terribly convenient :P . Commute on the motorcycle is fraught with danger (I was almost killed by inattentive drivers to and from work yesterday, which prompted this post), and commute by car isn't terribly speedy (as evidenced by having to wait in line for stoplights, turns, etc ( Read more... )

As the subject line says, I'm leaving Google. Or really, I've left Google ( Read more... )

Want to see what I've been slaving on over at the YouTube? There are a few reasons why it hasn't been announced yet, and I'll not say why, but I'm all about building communities at YouTube. My work may not change the world, but maybe the communities that are built with it could make it a better place ( Read more... )

So, this is the end of my second week working for Google in Santa Monica. More specifically, I work on the YouTube team ( Read more... )

I know, it's been a while since I posted, but like Annie, I've been busy. I started "part time" with my job at Networks in Motion before we moved, then went full time this week. Everything is going pretty well so far. I've been reading huge amounts of source code, getting my hooks into it, documenting whatever I can, etc. The people I work with ( Read more... )

After a 5 day trip to Michigan, we are back. We took pictures (Annie's has just started a flickr account, we'll see about posting some of them at some point), spent some time with Annie's family, ate some good food, and got some sun ( Read more... )

Hey everyone, so I'm up in San Jose, doing work, and I would be reading and commenting on people's journals when I have free time, but unfortunately, my boss' cablemodem service provider (Comcast I believe), has been having serious service issues. Doing a traceroute tells us that two hops up their routing jumps from 12ms to 1200ms (that is 1.2 ( Read more... )

I am finally able to tell people about what I have been working on in the last 5+ months.

I built the back end of Affini, A Network Of TrustAside from incoming and outgoing SMTP, and a small Perl daemon, I built everything that handles email at Affini. The "Inbox" and "Queue" on the site both query my backend. The Butlers that hit your mailboxes ( Read more... )

After arguing with my boss about various aspects of the project, and being basically wrong on all fronts, I was a little frustrated last evening (but not much so, the guy's smarter than I am). I worked for around an hour until around midnight implementing and testing a piece of the infrastructure. He came out and I showed him it, and he had ( Read more... )

Annie and I are going to be in MN from July 28 - August 1. Or really, we are landing the evening of July 28, and flying out the morning of August 1 ( Read more... )