Settling in San Francisco
Monday, May 12th, 2008So I’ve officially moved to San Francisco and started working at the new job. I’m living in the in a place called Marina Cove which will be home for at least the next few months while I get my bearings and a better idea of where I’d like to be long term. The marina area is nice, right by the bay, beach, presidio and a few other parks but the general crowd might a bit too fratboy for me. On the plus side I live right next to the area’s Safeway grocery store so not having a car hasn’t been a big issue and eating well is easy. Also the 30x express bus stop is two blocks away and gets me to work in under 15 min.
More to come about SF
Music is a very large part of my life and my typical work day. I’ve been thinking for some time now how to share what I listen to with you. I’ve thought about podcasting but figured it’d be hard to keep that commitment up, plus I’d want to play tons of copy-written material. I’ve thought about doing album reviews but there are so many people far more eloquent who do a better job. Instead, for now, I’m going to simply post songs/albums/artists that are in my 
Google just recently released AppEngine which will no doubt change the web application hosting industry as it handles all the hard problems related to scalability and it’s free while you’re small. The biggest problem with it is that I have is that it only supports Python right now. Google has promised to support other languages going forward so I think it’s time to make ourselves heard.