I really enjoy the number of ways that Google provides employees to show their appreciation to other Googlers. Earlier this week I came into work and noticed a gnome sitting on my desk. I was a little confused and questioned why it had migrated desks. I was instructed to check out the url inscribed on the hat and upon visiting I learned that the ( Read more... )

Me and Jenna made an offer on a town home in Acworth earlier today. We will have to wait until Monday or Tuesday to find out if the builder accepts our offer but we are nearly certain they will accept. We stumbled across the neighborhood while looking at a long list of houses our Realtor provided. We looked at the models and fell in love with one ( Read more... )

I have become a big fan of Google Reader over the past few months; I always find it interesting to see what articles my friends and co-workers share. I recently stumbled across a site called ReadBurner which aims to provide a Digg like interface for global Shared item popularity. The system requests for users to enter their public RSS address so it ( Read more... )

I came across an article that mentioned gOS yesterday and my interest was perked since it sounded like it could be a Google project. I have never heard of gOS before so I was a little unsure and I would soon find out that my instinct was correct. A quick search pointed me to thinkgos.com and I was excited to see a clean design and a nice looking ( Read more... )

This Christmas was enjoyable, we spent part of the day at each of our parent’s houses. We started by going to Jenna’s parents where we ate breakfast and exchanged gifts. They gave us a lot more than I expected, I always feel like they give me too much though. Afterwards we went to my parents house and continued the gift and eating trend. I feel ( Read more... )

Today seemed like an incredibly short day at work, I finished the features I wanted to do before the Holidays so I’m going to try and spend a few days not thinking about it. Everyone left the office pretty early; however, several people on my team stayed late to finish their projects. I don’t think anyone minded since we started drinking beer (St. ( Read more... )

The past couple of days have been a lot better than previous weeks. I haven’t had much time to write about my life because I have been busy enjoying it. Monday night I actually went out with Jenna alone, it was strange to go out on a “date” again since it has been so long. We started the night by going to Maggiano’s for dinner. We generally avoid ( Read more... )

Fridays generally feel so unproductive. I finished a chunk of code that I needed to, reviewed a bit of code that I had been avoiding, and even worked on my side projects but I still don’t feel like I did much. I did get some great games of pool in and watched the Authors@Google talk by Randall Munroe of xkcd. I was disappointed that I didn’t get to ( Read more... )

Today was much better, I actually felt like I accomplished something for a change. I started my day by writing Python, maybe that had an impact. A goal of mine is to improve my code testing so I may try to write a test each morning (for old, untested code) before I begin new features which should also have tests. I actually left work on time ( Read more... )

Tonight was the Holiday party for Google Atlanta. It was held at Park Tavern overlooking Piedmont Park and was very enjoyable. I took a lot of photographs which I promise will be available within the next day or two. I’m extremely happy with how some of them turned out. Sadly me and Jenna left around 10:40 so I didn’t capture the whole event; there ( Read more... )