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Sonoma last Sunday

Almost forgot to recap a team trip to Sonoma last Sunday. We rented a 15 passenger van and drove up to Sonoma for some wine tasting and merriment. We stopped at two wineries, Iron Horse and Gary Ferrell. From Sonoma Team Offsite From Sonoma Team Offsite Besides the nice views, I wouldn’t go out of [...]

Foray into “coding”

Work has been interesting lately. A few months ago I wrote a few scripts that got data from one source and put it elsewhere. Turns out this was useful for a lot of people. A few days ago, the thing stopped working. I search internally, asked several large mailing lists for help, and after a [...]

This week in Dublin

It has been a massively busy week. I don’t think I’ve ever really felt so tired or exhausted until this week. I think non-stop meetings, frantic catching up on emails, and then trying to make the most of my time here by going out with friends has taken a toll. At least I feel like [...]

Why I love working at Google

We do get work done.

Halloween Weekend!

It was Halloween this past weekend, which is normally a holiday I’m mildly interested in. I don’t have kids to take trick-or-treating, and well, putting together a costume is a lot more work than I am capable of doing with my limited set of creative-skills. Luckily, this year, Kolina took charge and created some awesome, [...]