Posts on ‘July 16th, 2008’

Bam! Third Wheel!

For anyone that ever reads (or read) Maddox (aka: thebestpageintheuniverse.net), you might appreciate what I found yesterday while in Seattle:

Yup, apparently someone actually took Maddox’s idea for rendering the Segway Human Transport obsolete seriously and sold it to the Seattle police department.

Yesterday I was re-waitlisted for the Fall 2008 incoming Berkeley Haas full time MBA program. Considering the other two outcomes are rejected and accepted, it could have been worse but it could have been better. Being the 5th time I’ve received communication from Haas that I’m still on the waitlist, I guess I should take [...]

Now that I’m leaving my job and looking at my next steps, I’ve been spending some time researching various volunteer organizations that would take me out to third-world/impoverished nations to do volunteer work. So far the two most promising are Doctors Without Borders and Peace Corps.

The problem is that neither offers exactly what I’m looking [...]

I’m leaving Gomez, my current employer, as of next Friday, July 25th. It’s been a great ride. Over the last ~2 years, with Gomez, and an additional year as the founder of Autoriginate/HostedQA, I’ve had a tremendous opportunity to work on really amazing products in the QA/testing/SaaS space.

But it’s also been tough, especially the frequent [...]