A long time ago I wrote a post, Why I Want to Work at Google. In that post I cover most of the benefits that Google provides because I felt like might grab more people’s attention than my real reasons. For most of the time I have spent in the IT field it has been by myself, nobody to work with and learn from or to teach. When I have worked with others I always benefited in some way, so for me, the greatest benefit that Google could possibly offer is the opportunity to work with an exceptional group of people and work in an environment that makes you feel appreciated.

I have been at Google for two weeks now and I hope I never have to leave. I work with very smart and very nice people and I can only hope that I can learn from them and maybe share some of my experience with some of them. Time will tell, but for now I am just happy to be a part of Google.

The only thing I wish is that I had more thumbs to point up in Google’s favor.

I haven’t mentioned this until now, but I have been hired as a contractor for Google. I can’t discuss the stuff I do, but I freaking love the job… even if I could discuss it, I don’t know that I could put it into words. I am looking forward to the possibility of converting to a permanent employee down the road. Really the only differences are that I don’t get all the perks, but the experience is good enough for me.

I just moved to Atlanta, and I have stuff everywhere. This is one of those moves where your parents give you everything of yours that is in their house so it was a beast of a move. I had a couple people able to help me, but I had to load and unload a good bit of the 26′ truck. I also had some trouble with the auto transport so I have to get some money back from Uhaul for being a lame company and giving me crap.

The last post regarding system partitioning was indexed by Google in less than 30 minutes. Sure beats the old days of waiting forever for stuff to get indexed. I thought it was interesting and wanted to share.

I have been noticing for a little over a week my email account on digital39.com was increasing in total storage space. I have a few more accounts under Google Apps, but none of my other domains were increasing. This morning my primary email address had 3100mb of total space, right now it says “You are currently using 480 MB (14%) of your 3216 MB.”. Might be time to switch. If you need more storage than that you can pay $50 per year, per user and get 25gb of email storage.

P.S. While writing this my email account increased another 2mb to 3218mb

[EDIT]

When I first wrote this I had not checked my Gmail account, which has also increased. Originally it was only the one domain that had increased and not Gmail or my other domains. It looks like storage on Gmail is up to 3220mb.