all posts from January 2008


Coolest Tool Ever!

As many of you know, I’ve spent the last few years fixing up 2 old motorcycles. When working on anything older – especially if someone else before you owned it for a while – there’s a very good chance of running into stripped bolts. And by stripped bolts, I mean the head is rounded so […]

New job, new country, new language, new adventures!

Now that I’ve managed to spread the news to most of my friends and family, I feel more comfortable posting this. A few weeks ago, I accepted a job with Google as a sysadmin on their Site Reliability Engineering team. Moreover, I’ve accepted the job in their Zurich, Switzerland office! Yes, you read that right, […]

Scam, sting, or setup?

So last Friday some really weird stuff happened. That night my friends Chis and Tam and I went out to dinner and a movie. For the purposes of this story, you should know that Chris and Tam are married. Our evening was at a place called The Bridge, a large complex here in LA with […]

Spine, Provision, and Onall

A few weeks ago, we at Ticketmaster, silently open-sourced our internal system configuration software which consists of 3 pieces of software. I led the effort to get them open-sourced, so I’m particularly happy about and proud of this. In addition, I develop on all 3 pieces of software, and am the primary author of one […]