I recently interviewed at Google for a system administrator position. A few friends have expressed interest in the questions. Here’s the quick review in case you’re curious… Continue reading →

This week I…
Packed the rest of the kitchen (total 22 boxes)
Had my kitchen removed
Switched my mailer to Thunderbird
Went to dinner with swami_bob and the professor
Averaged almost 45 min of cardio a day

Next week I hope to…
Get a new kitchen, damnit!
See misty and the unicorn again (what’s it been, 6 weeks?)
Attend interview on Wednesday
Make plans for countertop

“sorrow” will be my userpic for the next week. Ezzie and Merlin, I am sorry for your loss.

This week I:
upped my daily cardio to 45 min (avg this week 40.7 min)
attended an ice cream competition
completed the bulk of the remote access transition
bought three short-sleeved dress shirts (actually long-sleeved shirts with an “alteration” :)
packed all the food and most of the dishes into boxes

Next week I am planning to:
take thurs/fri off to see my kitchen get demolished
have a 3rd phone interview and maybe a live interview
get creative with dinners (sandwiches anyone?)

I have been using Mulberry for a long time but it’s starting to feel old and clunky to me. Mulberry 2.2.1 is dated 2002 and I don’t recall why I didn’t upgrade to 3.0… it was some new feature I didn’t like and couldn’t figure out how to get the old behavior back.

So, I’m putting the question to my LJ brain trust: What (windows) program do you use to read your mail, and do you like it? (If you don’t read your mail on a Windows machine, or if you use telnet/ssh or a web browser to read mail, you do not need to answer… I have web-based and text-based mail readers that I like pretty well)

I’m hoping there’s something out there better than Outlook, and I’m willing to pay. IMAP multiple folders and multiple identities are a must.

Riddle me this, Tarot fans.
Cups=water
Pentacles=earth
Wands=?
Swords=?

My answer in the comments, but if you have an idea, post yours before reading mine.

I signed this electronic petition. If you agree with the sentiment, you might want to sign it too.

So here’s the question that the right-wing extremists who control the Republican Congress will put before the Senate:

It’s despicable, it’s wrong, and we need to stop it.
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Does anyone have some Postfix brain cells to spare? Let me know your thinking on the following problem. Continue reading →

First phone interview w/google today. I think it went pretty well. I was asked about:

• single vs double quotes in shell or perl, and what backquote does
• example of how you would parse a passwd file using perl reg exp
• do you make a loop to do that or is there a function (i said map, grep, he wanted split)
• how do you do simple math in shell (i guessed eval or parens)
• how would you do the passwd split in shell (i said sed or awk)
• example of sed to turn commas into tabs
• what is cidr notation, walk through example of /22, how many nodes, what is the mask, what is that in binary

My turn to ask questions, I asked if ‘dont be evil’ has actually guided specific decisions at work. Nothing specific but just being cool to others in general. Also I mentioned that I am interested in both specialist and manager positions.