A9 finally launched the other day. check it out. here's an interesting search blog on the feature. congrats to betina and all the other folks down in palo alto who've been working so hard on this for the past couple months. last night, i said adieu to john, who is in his car right now, towards yakima, on his way down to san fran to become yet another engineer for a9. he needed to borrow a vacuum as the moving company had already packed everything he possessed, including many crucial cleaning supplies....so i went over with mine and hung out with him for awhile. smart kid, good friend. too bad i only recently started hanging out with him. best of luck down there...



speaking of goodbyes, two really great friends from work recently left amazon in the past week: eugene and guy. it feels like people i know are leaving constantly. it's strange how when someone makes the announcement to leave nowadays, the immediate reaction from most everyone is "wow, congratulations man!" the two of them are on to pursue drastic changes in their lives. good for them.



brendan came back from sydney on wednesday: welcome back :-)



i have a big housewarming party planned for a week from today. lots of cleaning and organizing to do this weekend in preparation for it....



sri & i finally bought our tickets to spain--wahoo! i can't wait. my whole month of may is all accounted for now, weekend-wise. it's crazy. the combination of two weddings, spain & debbie's visit has already filled it all up! speaking of weddings, i need to buy my plane ticket for austin soon...