Ok, I’ve been lazy and haven’t posted much lately. So sue me.

Lots of things happened this week. Most notable:

April arrived in the area for the MAAWG conference. I finally met her after working together for almost 5 years. Went together to a couple meetings and met a bunch of interesting people working on interesting (mostly antispam related) things. Also visited Ironport and met even more interesting people over there.

We also attended a product presentation at Greenplum about their Bizgres MPP product. They built a data warehousing thing on top of PostgreSQL that segments the data across a cluster of machines, then executes queries in parallel across that cluster. It’s supposed to be very fast. I haven’t tried it yet, but the presentation was interesting enough that I’m anxious now to set it up and play with it.

My new digicam (Kodak Easyshare Z730) arrived so expect pictures soon. The memory card was back ordered (it should be delivered this week) so for now I can only take a couple pictures until the internal (32M) camera memory fills up. I also plan on getting a Flickr account to make it easy to categorize and post the images.

I drove into San Francisco on Saturday (against the advice I got from my team mates in Dublin). I did get lost, but not so bad as I expected. Traffic is quite busy, parking is almost impossible. I also witnessed a movie-like (to me) police operation: several police cars converging at full speed in an intersection in front of my car, pulling over about 50m after that, storming out, and arresting somebody on the sidewalk. When I passed the police cars, there were something like 5 officers piled up on top of the “suspects” on the sidewalk.

Oh, and before you ask: I don’t know much about what happened in Dublin this weekend besides what I’ve read in the news.