So some of the people I know who read this already know… but it looks like I’ll be moving the family over to Silicon Valley in the next couple of months.

I’ve accepted a position at Google HQ in Mountain View (huzzah!) doing Mac/Linux sysadmin stuff, which means several things…

We’re finally getting married tomorrow, as we’ll be doing it on an E-3 visa, and the US doesn’t recognize de facto/common law relationships… I think our daughter is the most excited person involved… :) The process doesn’t look too bad, and luckily Andrew Pollock has put up some useful info about his experiences going through the same situation. I’ll add some more posts here if anything has changed…

We’re not doing much of a ceremony, but we’ll combine something with our farewell party here in Sydney before we leave.

We’ll also be looking for someone to replace my current position as Senior Technical Officer at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW here in Sydney, Australia. Here’s the post I sent to macos-x-server@lists.apple.com about it. Please contact me if you think you might be interested…

This probably means I’ll be a bit light on technical articles for this blog and afp548.com for a while, but hopefully that won’t be a permanent state of affairs…

I’m not sure we can afford to live in Mountain View itself, and at this stage it looks like we might be looking around Sunnyvale, Santa Clara or San Jose. Useful suggestions for an ex-pat moving to the US and looking for housing would be much appreciated… :) Someone pointed me to housingmaps.com which is rather cool, but it doesn’t seem like the local newspapers have sites like domain.com.au and realestate.com.au from poking around…