This is the kind of winter temperature that I like :-) , 14 degrees celsius in January. Sunny. No coats needed. Update: more images here .

Hi, fellow readers! January is going to be a month full of events. I’ve just arrived in Mountain View, California, where I’ll spend the full month with my Google colleagues to do some training and get in touch with the rest of the team ( my team is partially located in Dublin, where I work, and partially, mostly actually, in Mountain View ).

Have you ever tried looking for a very popular term on different search engines? You can learn very interesting things. In addition, if you try searching for a popular service which every search engine owner also offers, your results will probably be even more fun. For example … mail . Both Google, Yahoo and Microsoft ( and many others ) offer both the search engine and a free mail account. Let’s see what their search engine answers when you search just mail …

A new version of Borg is available! Borg is the software which is responsible for this whole site and it’s based on Ruby On Rails. Check this link for further info.

Go and visit my images gallery . I’ve added some photos from the weekend (19-21 Jan, 2008) I’ve spent in Las Vegas, Grand Canyon and Death Valley with my colleagues. We’ve probably spent most of the time driving (we decided both to the Grand Canyon and from Vegas back to San Francisco), but it was definitely worth!

At last I’ve been able to install Gullery on my hosting. That means that from now on you’ll be able to access a lot of photographs here on images.battlehorse.net. I’ve just added some photos from my current stay in California. Integration between Borg and Gullery is under planning.

Happy new year. Welcome in 2008!
Use the links on the right to navigate previous blog posts, since there’s still no interesting news for 2008 …