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Dublin
I’m not dead
Seriously, you should know by now that my blog tends to lapse for months at a time. Anyway, I’ve recently been under a constant flood of spam comments - I’ve now installed the (very cool) reCAPTCHA plugin. So, go ahead and comment, you’ll be helping to digitize books :)
In other news, Dublin weather was particularly [...]
ISP support
What is it with ISP customer support nowadays? Just when I thought that I’ve escaped one set of rude incompetents, my new ISP proves they can’t read, either. Here’s what I wrote them:
I’m a customer of your cable broadband service. I have trouble
reaching a specific IP address from my home computer, even though it
works from [...]
Week summary
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 [...]
Hello, Dublin
Arrived yesterday but didn’t manage to get online until now. Sunny but fairly cold weather.
For some crazy reason that I can’t understand, everybody drives on the left side of the road. This leads to strong feelings of insecurity when attempting to cross the street.
Went out last night with other freshly-arrived Googlers. One striking difference from [...]
Move status, continued
Lots of stuff handled today. Mostly done, except for minor things (like, packing up my bags). Leaving from Brasov tomorrow morning at 6:30 am.
Saying goodbye to friends sucks.
Move status
Work visa was approved today. Still lots of stuff to handle tomorrow.