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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…

Exercise log for September Fri 9/1: exercise bike 60 laps Sat 9/2: exercise bike 45 laps Sun 9/3: exercise bike 45 laps (Avg this week: 42.8 min) Mon 9/4: exercise bike 60 laps Stopped with exercise bike due to knee injury, probably tendonitis due to exertion. This was in the right knee, on the bottom edge of my kneecap.

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) ...

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: “Over seven million Americans can have a raise of $2.15 an hour by raising the minimum wage, but only if we give a tax cut to 7,500 ultra-rich people at a cost of $753 billion dollars.” It’s despicable, it’s wrong, and we need to stop it.

Does anyone have some Postfix brain cells to spare? Let me know your thinking on the following problem.

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.