A few months ago, I received an email from a recruiter at VMware. That email was one of those rare moments where my life almost went down a completely different path. I had signed up for so many free trials of VMware Workstation over the years, that I was used to getting emails from them, and when this one popped into my mailbox, I disregarded it. Fortunately for me, however, the sender made a small mistake. He had misread the name of my college, and so a few minutes later, I got a short, one line email that read:

“Sorry I just noticed that you are at the University of Louisville and not Louisiana.”

Having no idea what this was referring to, I looked back in my inbox and noticed the previous email from the same sender. It turned out that he had found out about me from my work on Deluge, and that VMware was looking for programmers with GTK+ experience.

After a series of emails and a few interviews, I wound up with an internship for this summer, and this morning I landed in San Francisco, ready to start work on Monday.  Their San Francisco office is just a mile down the road, well within walking distance.

I spent some time today exploring the city, going a few blocks in either direction on Market St.  I saw a lot of interesting things, and took some pictures that I’ll try to post later (at the moment they’re up on Facebook).  The city has a very Mediterranean feel to me, and reminds me a bit of my trip to Spain several years ago.