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“The Inside Story”

Posted on: Saturday, May 31st, 2008 in: Uncategorized

This happens to be one of the better articles I’ve seen that lets out some of the details of Google’s datacenters and how stuff gets done.
As they say about halfway through, it’s a bit useful to have some CS background to understand the details.  While I currently work on software pretty much entirely not datacenter-related, […]

Happy renters?

Posted on: Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 in: Uncategorized

Home prices fell at record pace in first quarter.
I think I mentioned a while back that Linda and I have been looking to purchase a house, off and on.  We recently decided that we’d stick with our two-bedroom apartment for at least the time being, despite the fact that we’re going to have to do […]

Spring Cleaning

Posted on: Saturday, May 24th, 2008 in: Uncategorized

As Linda says, we’re doing some spring cleaning.  It’s partly to get ready for the baby, but we’re finding that there’s an awful lot of crap sitting around here taking up space.  While I’m not quite ready to get rid of my collection of Google T-shirts (I did split them into ones I’ll wear vs. […]

Phancy Phun Physics

Posted on: Sunday, May 18th, 2008 in: Geekery

Phun is one of the neatest random things I’ve seen come across my blogs in a while.
Not to sound like a crotchity old fart who’s been riding Moore’s law right on up the curve, but back when I was in high school, this sort of thing pretty much wasn’t even possible, at least not on […]

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