So… a few weeks ago, I finally broke down and got a Facebook account. After having spent some time filling in all the little “tidbits about me,”1 and more or less trying to interact with… “it” over the past couple of weeks, I’ve decided I don’t really grok Facebook. The first thing I noticed about Read More
With a time-warpish flight, the Nomadic Build Engineer ’07 Tour has come to an end. I think United is playing games with the flight times on this flight: they claim it’s about a five and a half hour flight on the plane, it’s published as a five hour, forty-five minute flight, we left JFK almost Read More
The The Nomadic Build Engineer ’07 Tour continues in the Big Apple, the always open land of real pizza, subway churro stands, and a Mass Transit System That Is Actually Usable ™. My NYLUG presentation went… ok, I think. Everyone I talked to said it went great, but I’m not as sure. When I mentioned Read More
If you’ve been wandering around the Mountain View office, wondering where I am, I’ve just finished wek one of the Nomadic Build Engineer ’07 Tour. First stop for the tour bus: Toronto! While soaking up that world-renowned Canadian hospitality, highlights included: I only took like three pictures in Toronto, and this was one of them. Read More
During this Thursday’s outage window, IT will be moving one of the final remaining services off of axolotl.1 Because this change will cause Tp numbers to noticeably shift, we will be closing the tree at 6 pm PDT, an hour before the outage window. Assuming the outage window goes well and the new pageload server Read More
So, we can’t comment our code the way we see fit anymore? Didn’t we already go through this once? I think the most logically inconsistent part of the bug is the whole “You can’t say certain ‘bad words,’ but we’ll still help you spell them”-thing. This seems like a losing proposition. As censorship of any Read More