Since I am interviewing with Yahoo! this week, I have started “re-finding” Yahoo!. To be honest I haven’t used a lot of Yahoo!’s tools in quite a while (except Flickr). I have to say, that their list of tools as gotten quite large. My wife has been using their mail for some time; personally I am waiting on an invite to the new Mail Beta, I have read a lot about it & would really love to try it out. I consider myself a “hard core” email user, so I would love to tear into it. I’m pretty impressed with Gmail, but from what I have seen of the new Yahoo! Mail, I can’t wait to play with it.
I also installed the new Yahoo! Toolbar for Firefox. Let me say, I really like it. It knows when you are logged in! That to me is totally kewl. It also installs a Right-Click menu, so I can Right-Click on a link and add it to my Bookmarks. I can also customize the toolbar from the website. Not sure, but I am assuming that when I install it at home tonight; the settings should carry to that machine.
Now if only they had a good blog tool, I know about 360, but you need to be able to change the look and feel of the site as well as the content.
Update: It worked as expected, I installed the toolbar at home & all my settings carried with.
Well, I got confirmation from Yahoo!. I’m going to California next week. I leave Tuesday night, I’m scheduled to interview with 2 different departments on Wednesday, then I fly home on Thursday.
I finally heard from the group in Arizona, they asked a few more questions & for a code sample. I hope to hear from them again next week and possibly get out there to visit them soon.
I’m still leery on moving to California, the prices there are considerably higher than here.
I’ll be releasing the next version of blogCal in a couple of days. It now features support for Internet Explorer 5 on the Mac. I am waiting to here back from Andrew Gregory, I use his excellent XMLHttpRequest library. I have modified his library to add support for IE on the Mac & I am awaiting his approval before I post the changes..
You can see it here. I am running the latest version on this site, so if you have Mac IE handy follow this link.
I’ll explain more in detail later..
Well, Yahoo! has invited me out to California next week for my in person interviews. I have been looking on-line at apartments & such in the South Bay Area. Still not sure where we would live if I moved to California, but I can cross that bridge when I get out there next week. I’m hoping to have time to check out a couple of places before I leave there.
Donna is really excited about the possibility of moving to California, she went there a couple of years ago when she won that trip to the set of Port Charles.
Well I still haven’t heard from the group out of Arizona & I’m still skeptical of the group in Atlanta.
I’ll post more later…
I got Zach a new toy this weekend, but it turns out that Donna & I play it just as much (if not more) than he does. I got Zach a Nintendo DS to replace the Playstation2’s we sold yesterday. He seems to enjoy it more than the Playstations too. We got him SonicRush & Mario Kart for it. It’s really kinda kewl, I got Mario Kart to play through my Airport Express base station. I only had to change one setting in the base station.
I had to set the Multicast rate to 2 instead of 11.
Then the DS picked up the wireless connection & worked like a charm. I played Mario Kart online for over an hour.
Well, Zach’s turn at playing is up.. I get to play next..
Well first off, I got notice from the county that I was excused from Jury Duty. So now I can go on the various job interviews and begin searching for a place to live.
Second, we had a very large Yard Sale this weekend. Anyone who knows me, knows that I love tools.
In the immortal words of Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor: Uurgh POWER.
I sold 90% of my tools, so we could move across the country. I figured that where ever we move to, they must have a Home Depot or a Lowes. Besides, we will probably move into an apartment before buying a new home. I may not have a garage to store them. Anyway, we made enough money to pay for the U-Haul trailer and most of the gas.
I have another phone call scheduled for Monday with the company out of Arizona & one on Tuesday with a Back-End Manager at Yahoo!.
Also, as some of you know; yesterday was the one year anniversary of our house being robbed. I still have not heard from the Detective that is “supposed” to be working our case. I guess I will never see that laptop or the guitars again.
Well enough for now, it’s the weekend.
