This is taken largely verbatim from a note I'm maintaining on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=409466787948Read more... )

ACM posted an interview with Sean Quinlan called "GFS: Evolution on Fast-forward". GFS is this context is the Google File System. My team runs, maintains, monitors, is on-call for, etc. most of the GFS cells in the company ( Read more... )

I finished building several tweet-a-watts power meters this weekend. I'm still working on the software to record the data, but here's a sample. I've turned off the y-axis units because I'm not 100% sure of my math. The relative differences should be correct. The x-axis is in UTC, so the numbers are 7 hours ahead.

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I decided to get updated business cards. They just arrived.


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When I started at Google, I sat in Building 43. Before that, my team had recently moved to that part of the building. About eight months later, my team moved to building 40. Which building isn't important, just that we moved. At the time my teammates told me to expect a move every 6 months or so. There are various reasons groups get moved around. ( Read more... )

Separate, yet equal.

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Since I bought my Prius last February, I've been keeping all of my gas receipts and on each one I mark the mileage. I now have a bunch of stats that are likely only of interest to me ( Read more... )

The Empire State Building from my hotel:

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I think my video card is trying to hurt itself. The cooling fan has melted and bent out of shape. Note: The fan blades should be flush with the surrounding bits.

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I didn't arrive at the faire until late, so the only thing I really did was attend the surface mount soldering workshop that I signed up for.
I turned this:

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