Yesterday Cisco held an all-company meeting at Amphitheatre down the street from Google. Shoreline, the road many Googlers take to work, was completely backed up.
My 6-minute commute turned into 40 minutes. At one point, I realized that the the driver of the car stuck next to me was Kan, the Google Desktop PM. We rolled down our windows and had a nice chat.
I got into work, and found an amusing email thread "Shoreline? WTF?!".
The next email thread is a warning by a Googler that they spotted a snake near their building.
Within 10 minutes, the servers grind to a halt. My email is down. There's some kind of network outage.
My coworkers and I lamented. It takes an hour to drive to work, the network is down, and there are SNAKES on campus! And it's not even noon!
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Maybe cisco is moving into the search space, and this is a pre-emptive strike.
You wanted SGI's campus now welcome to all the problems! Just be glad the Dead aren't around any more... although there is Phish, dirty hippies!
I got caught in that csco traffic jam yesterday too. My normal commute (central - 85 - 101) took 4x the normal. When I asked a csco friend what was going on he said the normally low attendance company all-hand mtg was floaded due to the promise of free lunch and a t-shirt with the new corp logo (which insiders are calling the "hello kitty" logo ;-). Apparently this new logo is supposed to be more consumer-friendly. What do you think: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34211
p.s. Please, please, more pics of the lovely Sara. :-)
Wow, no jokes about "Snakes on a Plane" yet? That movie really did fizzle out.
Anon: Cisco people were bought off with a lunch and a T-shirt?? ... ok, that actually is a nifty logo.
That MS employee complaining about Cisco being idiotic is me =]. Saw a visit to my blog from your site, so I just wanted to say "Hi."
-From your friendly competition down the street
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