What does your company's foundation do?

At the last big company I worked for, we had a foundation that did things like giving scholarships and taking credit for everyone else’s donations to United Way.

My current employer, Google, has a philanthropic arm (aptly named Google.Org) which spent $ to design rechargable electric cars and is going to spend a million bucks trying to get manufacturers interested in adopting the technology.

Some notes:

• 100 MPG is the goal (74 is the current achievement, about +30 MPG over hybrids).
• Solar Power on the office roofs provides energy (view the current output of the solar panels)
• More info here

If by 2025, all U.S. cars on the road were hybrids and half were plug-in hybrids, oil imports would drop by 8 million barrels per day (mbd). Today, the US imports 10 mbd.

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Yuppie children names

With so many kids being named Cody, I’m surprised nobody names their next child Datay.

I invite you all to a BBQ, Friday, June 29, 6pm

[If you are not in the New Jersey area, no need to continue reading.]


My new book is finally (almost) shipping! The 2nd edition of “The Practice of System and Network Administration” is due out on June 22nd. You are invited to my house for a BBQ and book-signing party!

When: Friday, June 29, 2007
Time: 6pm-9pm
Where: Tom & Chris’s house, Bloomfield, NJ (email for directions)
Why: To celebrate the release of da new book

Shameless plug: you can pre-order it on Amazon ( http://tinyurl.com/25ea38 ) and I promise to sign it with something witty when you arrive.

We’ll be supplying beer, beer, and hamburgers.

More about the book here:
http://www.everythingsysadmin.com/archives/000186.html

(I’ll have a limited number of copies for sale at the party, but I don’t yet know how many. Amazon is your best bet.)

RSVP: Please email me at yesthattom at livejournal dot com so I know to buy enough food and drinks.

Hope to see you there!

Tom