Tomorrow, I get to go to what should be a really cool training session. First cool thing about the training session is that it is in San Francisco which means that it will take 2 hours less of my day than riding the bus down to Mt. View and back ( Read more... )

Happy Monday Everyone. I am sure everyone will be happy to know that I am actually doing real work on a regular basis now at Google. I have already done a smattering of Quality Assurance (QA) releases for some of our advertising products. So far, the job is very operational in nature. What I mean by that is that I come in and sit down and start ( Read more... )

Being a New Hire at Google
Okay, for anyone who hasn't already been debriefed on this, "Noogler" is the term for a New Hire at Google. I am pretty sure this stems from the trend on internet message boards to call the uninitiated people, noobs (newbies ( Read more... )

Okay, and now for the final installment in this three night marathon of getting everyone up to date with what is going on out in the Valley of the Dells. (Just made that up, although a quick Google search shows me that I am not the first to do that.)

Omissions from "Still Here"
Sarah and I really had a great time driving across the country. I was ( Read more... )

So, I am thinking that I am still going to leave you wanting more. I am pretty darn tired, so, this post is basically going to just be an outline of tomorrow's post. Sorry, but here is what you have to look forward to/wait on.

1. Omissions from "Still Here" In this section, I will talk about some of the things that Sarah thought deserved ( Read more... )

I am sure some of you have been worrying that I have fallen off of the planet. Fear not. I have just been moving across the country and starting work. This has left no time for updating my journal. I even feel guilty about updating it now. I know I have to get up early tomorrow, but I really felt compelled to get something written down about ( Read more... )

I have always loved xkcd, but today, I love them even more.


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Hey Everybody, I got a job at SAS ... again! This time around I will be working in the Install Technologies group. We will be making it easier than ever for our customers to actually get SAS's software installed and configured on their computers. Yippee ( Read more... )

Well, gang, a scant 18 months after getting a job at one of my two "dream companies," I am leaving SAS. I have learned a lot about software development at one of the Goliaths in the industry, and now I am going to go for a stint with one of the Davids.

TopCoder is a very exciting company from my point of view. They have a very bright future and ( Read more... )

Well, gang, if you don't know by now, I "interviewed" for a Project Manager position working for my boss's boss's boss, Armistead, today at 4PM. As I had suspected, this was not really an interview, both because he wasn't really considering me for the position, and because I didn't particularly want to do the job. Instead it was an opportunity ( Read more... )