Archive for June, 2006

Moving to San Mateo

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

Well, whining about our frustrating rental house hunt experience yesterday must have helped somehow. It turns out that the person who got the last place we applied for decided to pass on it and move to Japan instead. The property manager just called me back to offer us the place, and we’ll be signing the [...]

Home Hunting Frustrations

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

A while ago we decided to move to the Peninsula, preferably somewhere around San Mateo where I work, or surrounding areas like Foster City, Belmont, San Carlos, or Burlingame. We’ll be selling our house and renting for the time being, as I’m not all that confident about the real estate market - at least in [...]

Some interesting IT workforce trends

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

I came across two interesting pieces of news this morning:

HP is cutting back on telecommuting. By August, most of HP’s IT employees will be required to work from one of HP’s office instead of from home, even though HP pioneered the telecommuting trend starting in the late sixties. Apparently they have found that significant efficiencies [...]