Excuse me while I toot my own horn for a bit. I work in operations at Google which means my work doesn’t usually result in the stuff you see and use every day. Well it does in a very indirect manner but that’s just semantics. Anyway, aside from a Gmail theme (Cherry Blossom if you’re [...]

Yep, that’s my mom being scared of Conficker. Sooooo annoying since I set up a Ubuntu machine in her office when her other computer was “slow” (it just needed more RAM). She wouldn’t use it because it didn’t have MS Office on it. Can you tell how aggravated this makes me? Look: >:-| This is [...]

Warning: Taking a page from the book of Paul, this is a long rambling post that doesn’t have any real point aside from me writing down some thoughts in my head at the moment. You’ve been warned. So California can’t afford to pay tax refunds. It is instead looking into delaying tax refund checks or [...]