Yeah that's right, we have Segways.

I’ve been at Google for a week now although it really doesn’t seem like it. I’ve been meaning to get some photos but I keep forgetting (apart from the segway ones from a few hours ago) so here are the edited highlights:

I’ve explored the whole office space – taking in the Liquid Galaxy Google Earth booth, pods for having naps, the gym (I didn’t stay in there very long), the beach huts, the sushi bar, the deli and the main cafe serving 3 amazing meals every day. I also have the most kitted out desk I’ve ever had – MacBook Pro, a beast of a workstation, dual 24″ monitors and a nerf gun with a laser sight. Well, I say “laser” but a more accurate description would be “weak red LED behind a lens”.  Oh, and at the end of the week I rode round the office on a Segway! I even avoided breaking my legs, unlike one unlucky colleague a few months ago (notice the missing grip on the left-hand Segway – the other casualty of that incident).

The work itself is crazy. So many different systems, acronyms, technologies and products but I’m not allowed to talk about all that in public so I won’t…

Read the title! Woot! I’ll be joining the AdSense team in London, so I’ve done a bit of homework to try out the product and added an AdSense banner to this page.

Working at Google is something I’ve wanted to do for a very long time – old housemates reminded me how much I used to talk about their offices while I was at university, and that was nearly 7 years ago now. I’m so excited by the idea that I hope I can get some sleep tonight.

I don’t know exactly what I’ll be doing on AdSense yet, or indeed what I should talk about on a public blog so I’ll keep the details light for now. I DO know, though, that I’ll be sent to Mountain View for induction training in a few weeks time, which I’m very excited about. Once I’ve got some advice on what is permissible I’ll try and post some photos and an account of what it’s like to be a ‘Noogler’.