Archive for May 2008

All that’s missing was a win…

Went to see the Giants play the Padres on Friday.  The game had it all and a perfect chance for our visiting work ambassadors (from India, China, and Dublin), to experience our American past-time.  Here’s the significance of Friday’s game:

Omar Viszquel was honored for having played the most games at shortstop in major league history
The [...]

Moscone Center – Googlefied

Lucky me got to be paid to talk to developers on Thursday at the Google I/O conference.  I demoed Google Webmaster Tools for a fair number of developers, who seemed genuinely interested in trying it out and using it to make better websites.  Moscone Center, where the conference was held in SF, was completely Googlefied [...]

Bike’s Back!

Happy to report that after I took my bike into the shop to repair a stripped bottom bracket, I picked it up today with not only a new bottom bracket, but a new crank set!  Woohoo – free hardware upgrade to a TruVatic Elita GXP crankset.  Work is keeping me busy, so no time to [...]

Memorial Day Weekend

Excellent three-day weekend.  Relaxed, caught up on sleep, went to a fun BBQ today.  Did a bit of cleaning, as well.
I did a few marathon sessions of GTA IV, finally finishing it on Monday night.  It was a damn good game, with an excellent storyline, character development, and graphics.  The dialogue is hilarious, as is [...]

Thursday’s the New Friday?

Today was an interesting day.  Some of our tools were scheduled to go under maintenance today, but I did some checking throughout the day and found that they weren’t.  The office was surprisingly empty throughout the day (where did everyone go??) and I don’t think anyone wanted to tell our managers that the tools were [...]