all posts from June 2008


R.I.P. George Carlin

For those of you haven’t heard the very, very sad news, George Carlin passed away yesterday at the age of 71 due to heart failure. George Carlin was not only a fantastic comedian but a hero who accomplished much for free speech and bringing awareness of the importance of our principal freedoms. For those who […]

Potential blog change

Four years ago, when I first started this blog, I spent a while looking at WordPress (WP) and b2evolution (b2evo). At the time, even though I felt b2evolution was a bit too cumbersome, WP was simply not feature-rich enough – so this blog runs on b2evolution. However I preferred the look of the WP skins, […]

Update

As most of you know, I started with Google last week as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) [1]. Lots of people have asked how my first week went (and have usually thrown in either “I bet all you do is play pool and Rock Band all day” or “I bet they’re working you to death” […]