The Mp3Car Blog

I started my career at Mp3car in the spring of 2005 right after I finished my Masters degree in Computer Science. One of my best friends, Mike, was working with Rob at the time and he mentioned that Rob’s startup company needed some help packing boxes. I figured why not make some extra money while I am looking for a Software development job. It wasn't something I was thrilled about, packing boxes, but it was a job and it paid the bills.

My first day on the job, and my first responsibility, was to organize the new inventory that was piled up in the middle of the smallest room in the basement (about 12x12). The room reminded me of the pantry room we had in our house, you know, the place where you would keep groceries, dishes, etc...so I started calling it the Pantryroom. We've since moved out of there a long time ago, but my work machine is still called the Pantrybox.

Anyway, so this room had a whole bunch of Lilliput boxes piled up in the middle of it along with some Xenarc products, M1-ATXs, OPUS products, CarNetix regulators, startup-shutdown controllers, and shelves fresh off of Home Depot. So I assembled the shelves, put them up along the walls and organized the products the best I could since I had no idea what most of them did.

[...]