Generic Update

So I've been here for two weeks now, and I must say it's going quite well. My project is to make a small internal webapp so that someone with a scanner can walk around datacenters scanning barcodes on racks and power supplies, which I'll put in a database linking power supplies to which rack they are supplying, which someone much smarter than I will eventually use to optimize power usage across Google. This, of course, sounds awesome, although my hand in it is pretty minimal (techies only: I'm writing in in Python with Django, which is super-awesome). I should have this project done in the next week or two, at which point my host is having a baby, so he'll be gone for about three weeks, and I have no idea what I'll do with my time once that happens.

Our apartment is pretty nice, and we've got a bunch of furniture and stuff (queen-size beds!). I also got to borrow a bike from Google for free, which is a lot nicer than anything I would have bought with my own money. The food is, as usual, plentiful and delicious.

I've also started working on something outside of Google with Mattt (we worked on it for pretty much one night only so far). We're not ready to release it yet, though if you know some places to look, you can probably find it on your own (and it will look like crap right now, so please don't). Don't worry, it's not that cool. We are hoping to do lots of these projects over the summer though, so if all goes well, we will have some cool stuff for you all to play with by the end.

I saw a presentation on the Android today. I can't really say anything about it (although nearly the same presentation was given at Google IO, and the project is supposed to be open source at some point, so you can probably find or wait for the details), but it is quite bodacious, and I am excited.

Sayonara!

I'm back, babydoll!

First day of the summer was today. I'll be keeping this (probably slightly less) updated (than last year). Welcome back, me.