Saw this beautiful place in San Francisco when I was there in 2002. The house overlooks the Palace of Fine Arts down the hill.

• After five and a half years of working at Bristol-Myers Squibb, I am heading to Johns Hopkins for a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. I am really excited that to be doing research once more, and will be starting at JHU on July 1st.
• I was awarded a video iPod as part of the MyEclipse Ajax iPod giveaway in February. Since I have never won anything in a competition based purely on luck, it was a very nice surprise to win something I had been craving for a while.

Since Gmail can now host other domains, I decided to move my mail hosting and use the cool Gmail interface. The program is still in beta and signup has to be approved, but I was approved within a day or two of submitting my request. Setup was quite simple -- I simply had to switch the MX records for my domain to point to Google's servers.

Advantages so far:

• Great Gmail interface
• 2 GB storage per account, more than what I had at Lunarpages
• Integration with other Google services like Google Talk

Things that are not so good:

• Gmail Notifier does not work with hosted accounts
• No way to import old email (GML and gExodus work fine, but do not preserve timestamps)