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Local hiker moving up in the world

March 19th, 2008

I just found out a guy I’ve hiked with several times — Vindu Goel, who also is a tech columnist for the Mercury News — has just been hired away by the New York Times. That’s him at Mount Diablo in the picture. He’s going to be a deputy technology editor at the Times. Here’s his latest blog posting on the move.

So, hats off to Vindu, may he bring glory to the Gray Lady.

(In the small-world department: Vindu was Winehiker Russ’s roommate for awhile.)

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 at 11:05 am and is filed under In the news. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

4 Responses to “Local hiker moving up in the world”

The Trout Underground Says:
March 19th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
So there we have it; the fastest route to total and absolute career success involves hiking with Mangan.

I wonder how much my three hour hike with the blogger ho-down gang (including Two-Heel Drive) will add to my lifetime earnings total…
fedak Says:
March 19th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Tom, your flickr photo of Vindu got a Valleywag link
tom Says:
March 20th, 2008 at 6:30 am
John: Thanks for the heads-up.
Cynthia Leeder Says:
March 20th, 2008 at 8:06 am
I’m going to miss Vindu’s columns. I thought he wrote a great one in the Merc yesterday.

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