This is my first bird photo in Project 365, and a “portrait”, no less! Taken during a cruise in the San Francisco Bay, the Seagull was flying along with the boat, probably to get any scraps that these odd humans might have to spare.
In the background, you see the skyline of the City of San Francisco. The most notable landmark in the picture is probably the Transamerica Pyramid on the far left. I really like how this photo turned out. It might look like it’s photoshopped, but rest assured it’s not 
Today, I had a quick appointment at Mercedes Benz Research and Development in Palo Alto, and this is what I was greeted with in the parking lot: (Presumably) research vehicles, hibernating in a protective “sock”. Considering the tree branches on top of the left one, looks like the cars haven’t been moved in a while. Still, they look pretty cool, with their star on the front, as if they want to say, make no mistake, this sock puppet has a German accent. 
Today we released Firefox 4 for Mobile, available on the Android and Maemo platforms. It combines all the awesomeness of Firefox 4 into one small package. If you have an Android (or Maemo) phone, hop on over to firefox.com and give it a try!
In the picture: Cheng, of Mozilla Support fame, using Firefox on a gigantic (borrowed) Nexus S phone. Yes, the touch screen really works, and yes, it is really running an instance of the Android operating system with a real version of Firefox for Mobile. It’s awesome!
In the background: The team of Mozilla France, enjoying the launch festivities while being connected to various Mozillans across the globe via video conference.
A well-appreciated Guinness after a laborious day! And I am saying that, having only recently acquired a tolerance taste for this stuff. Usually, I steer clear of dark beers in favor of something more hoppy. But fresh from the tap, Guinness is not half bad
Today, at last, I got around to re-building my garage shelves, so my tools finally have a proper “home”. It turned out to be a project of the kind “assemble IKEA stuff without instructions and with some parts missing”, but the results were good. Though the angle brackets to connect the shelves to the wall were MIA, I used different ones that I had on hand, with screws I happened to have around. The majority of the weight is carried by the shelves’ L-feet anyway — I am quite sure I wouldn’t want to trust an American-style drywall to carry any serious weight .
Oh no! Yesterday was the first day in 85 days of “Project 365″ that I failed to take and post a picture that same day. I blame Minecraft: During the day I was busy, but usually catch up on the photo taking before the end of day. But then I gave Minecraft a shot: It’s a fantastic little game about converting a world made of blocks into something awesome (and all the while staying safe from the monsters that come out at night). I like the gameplay and how–in this xbox and PS3-saturated world of ours–it’s a game that totally pulls off the 8-bit graphics.
Apologies for the delayed post and I’ll try to be on top of it again (unless I get sucked into the game agai………
Today was work-from-home day for me, which means I can wear a shirt like this — that I usually wouldn’t wear in public, or people would think I am a Googler, and we don’t want this, do we? I got the shirt a few weeks ago at PyCon where Google had a booth and handed out these t-shirts if you solved a Python problem for them. All right! By the way, the back reads, Python: Programming how Guido Indented it. Oh, how punny
A view of Mountain View’s Castro Street this morning. All of Northern California is spending these weeks under a deeply dark cloud of constant rain and windstorms, with such fun events as (according to last night’s news), flood warnings for all counties except Santa Clara (phew, at least we dodged that bullet).
When I moved here they told me, the weather is always nice in the Bay Area. They tricked me! What is this, Oregon?
