Posted from 30,000ft

 

Taking advantage of free inflight wifi provided by gogo (for smartphones only) posting using the WordPress 2.9 mobile app.

Flew down to San Jose and rode with my parents (who flew into San Francisco) to San Luis Obispo for my Aunt’s wedding. I was the official photographer for the ceremony. Weather cleared up nicely for the big day, and didn’t get too hot. Sunday the next day was really nice and quite warm. I got to bury some cousins in the sand, but sadly didn’t get a chance to try surfing.

Sunday night we headed to the bay area and did the touristy stuff on Monday. Went and visited the Full House house in San Francisco, My old college roommate who works at google gave me and my dad an abridged tour of his workplace, small software company, you may have heard of, went shopping at the Apple Company store at 1 infinite loop, and drove by Steve Jobs’s old house in Los Altos. Then it was back to the San Jose airport, and here I am, blogging at 30,000 feet (not sure how high we actually are, just a guess).

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Job, for now…

After Labor Day this year, within 3 days I was interviewed, hired and started my first day of work as Technology Support Specialist III for Sheldon High School in Eugene. The school runs mostly Windows 7 with some XP computers, and everything is managed on 3 different versions of Windows server. Needless to say this will be a learning experience for me.

Also, as has been in the news this week, the 4J district and Unions are fighting over whether to add back furlough days as work days, which due to budget shortfalls, would mean they would have to lay off over 100 workers (mix of classified and certified). They of course let the newest hires go first, so we’ll see if this lasts past December 17. 🙂

WordCamp Portland 2009 Recap

This past weekend (Sept 19-20) and Portland, Oregon were the setting for the likes of

  • Matt Mullenweg and Jane Wells of Automattic
  • Scott Porad from the icancheezburger network
  • Tyler Sticka, designer at Waggener Edstrom
  • Will Norris, one of the core developers of Shibboleth and author of the OpenID plugin for WordPress
  • viper007bond, one of the most prolific WordPress plugin developers
  • Aaron Hockley, founder of the Portland WordPress Users Group
  • Justin Kistner, senior manager of social media at WebTrends (and designer of some of the sites I currently manage)
  • Rick Turoczy, from Silicon Florist, a blog about web startups in the Portland area
  • and countless others

These folks and others, along with awesome food from Whiffies Pies, Windmer Beer, Zupans, Resers, Coconut Bliss ice cream, Cup Cake Jones— and the awesome folks at WebTrends for providing the venue for the event— made for an AMAZING WordCamp.

Also a big thanks to my buddy Tristan for letting me crash at his apartment Saturday night and helping me find my way around town. Tristan’s former roommate from Eugene, Aaron was also there. They both live and do freelance web development in Portland, so it was also a great networking opportunity for them.

This is a fairly long post, so continue after the break if you will 🙂

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