> Hi, Greg: > > You did very well in your first round of interviews and I am interested > to bring you over next week for your second interview, what time frame > will be good for you? How about Thursday afternoon? Um, yes please.

I just chatted with kethry to tell her some good news. Now, I will tell you all! So I had an interview today. I feel really good about it. It was at Yahoo. I found out about the job on Monday and applied. The recruiter sent my info to the manager Tuesday and the manager called me at home Tuesday night (last night). When I mentioned I would be on-site at Yahoo tomorrow he said “Great, let me get together some people to interview you.” I was surprised that I got an interview the next day with 4 people. It sounds like I just got right in at the second level :) Doesn’t that kick ass? ...

We have a few domains that used to be used for free email, and have been closed down for quite some time (18 months in the case of altavista.com). They have been heavily abused by spammers. I was tasked with setting up two sendmail servers to catch the mail to postmaster and bounce the rest. Two alpha servers had been doing this job in the NY data center, but that facility closed down. Here are the details of how mail is set up on mail8 and mail9.

Thanks for all the hugs and well-wishes. It looks like Dad is doing well, stable, etc. I talked to him this morning. My poor stepmom sounded pretty freaked out last night so I will call her a bit later too. Thanks again.

Bad news, my dad was bleeding internally yesterday and was taken to the hospital. They found the source of the bleeding and cauterized it. He is in ICU now. He is expected to recover, but there are three units of blood standing by in case he starts bleeding again. I am not sure if I will go up and see him. I definitely wil do so soon, but not sure when. I *do* know that I will be donating blood very soon.

Friday: Out to lunch with space_parasite, aelfsciene, eldrikmt, gregbo, and some other folks, to honor Trip’s last day at AV. (I’m thinking “celebrate” is not the right word.) Trip will be missed. Please join me to wish him luck in his future (especially in finding work as a unix spud soon!) After a bit, we left for bowling and pizza, to honor last days for a couple other folks. Bruce made it but Angie and Trip didn’t. There was much bowling and beer and doofy prizes. ...

I joined www.orkut.com. It’s another one of those “friend of a friend” services. However, I don’t feel inclined to feed it all the names and email addresses of all my friends. Whether or not I trust their privacy policy, I have a strict personal privacy policy as well :) So. If you feel inclined to check out orkut.com, you can find me and mark me as a friend. Are there any other “friend network” type of services that you use and like?

Happy Birthday Bryant!

I went to Yahoo! HQ again today, affectionately known as “the collective”. I will probably go again tomorrow. I insinuated myself in a few meetings and met some people. Here I will attempt to catalog the current list of leads I am working on. Nam Nguyen: This guy just bubbled up to the top of my list. Based on my conversation with him Thursday, and after seeing him for a mostly-unrelated conversation today, he put together an actual job description. This is very interesting and pleasing to me, because he wrote up the job description *after* talking to me, and showed it to me first before submitting the request for a req/headcount. Hopefully management approves and budget is there. I gave him three things to add in that would make it even more tailored to my qualifications, but as written it is pretty compelling. ...

Posted another friends-only entry regarding job search. If you don’t see it, make sure you are logged in, or contact me… gregc