Yahoo Headquarters Tour

If you ever wondered how the campus of this search company looks like, now there is a pretty nice video available. They give you a really good tour through the HQ in Sunnyvale

Another one, really funny one, was made by Beck when they had a gig during the hackday. It is really worth being watched. Enjoy!! Go and check this out, it´s really cool

Julius and Ester coming to visit


My brother Julius and his wife Ester came to visit me here in the Bay Area. We had a great time eating out and enjoying San Francisco. We also went down along the coastal Highway Nr.1 to enjoy great views of Big Sur. Look at some pictures from the long weekend

Hackday and Beck?

This weekend was spectacular. Yahoo! hosted a public hackday, which means anyone from outside Yahoo can come to the campus and develop a piece of Software over night...in 24 hours. The best results in each category (messenger, flickr, etc.) were awarded a price.
But the best thing is yet to come - Friday evening we had a live concert of BECK at the campus, besides good music the show they had was great. Furthermore there was free pizza and beer, that´s a nice way to start the weekend.

0-100 in about 4sec. A new generation electric car

Today we had a very interesting presentation at our office. Representatives of Tesla Motors came to talk about their prototype of an electric sports car. It is an amazing car, having an acceleration better than most sports cars, but a consumption of only 2 litres/100 km (if you translate the cost of the used energy into fuel costs). It is fully electrical, so you charge it overnight or at any energy outlet, and you can cruise for about 400km. After the talk we went downstairs to get a real look at the car, and it was even better than expected. I am convinced that this is the future...

Activities besides working

Playing fuzzball is the favourite way to take breaks and get our heads free. We recently participated in a Yahoo fuzzball tournament, but we lost in the first round...guess we need some more practice.


In the afternoon Nick (another intern) and I are usually hitting the volleyball court on the campus. During the summer I met a lot of nice people there and we had some good games of vball.

Brazilian Party in San Francisco

Last night of Markus in the Bay Area before he returns to Austria. We went to this nice location, called SupperClub in Downtown San Francisco. Was really good music (there was also a live brazilian percussion band) and a nice venue