After PhD: Academia or Industry?

Being a PhD student, I quite often have thoughts about "what will I be doing after I finish my PhD?".
Well, the obvious answer for me is, I want work in California at a cool company like Google, and I'm doing my best to make that happen, but being that not so easy, I sometimes also think about other options (not meaning that the way to academia is easier).

I heard of this guy and read his article sometimes (even posted something about his post: Logging is your friend), but I noticed his blog kinda first time - seems like an amazing guy: Matt Welsh.

He's been a professor at Harvard, and he has decided to move to Google quitting his professor job.

And he has written some nice posts about how it's like being a kind-of one-of-the-highest-profile (man, professor at Harvard!) academia, and how it's like working as a software engineer at Google, and how he likes better at Google: (1)'Why I'm leaving Harvard' and (2)Day in a life of a Googler.

And one of his colleague professor has posted that how he likes his job as a professor: Why I'm staying at Harvard.

And just going through his blogposts, there are a lot more interesting stories about PhDs (1)Getting started as a PhD student (2)So, you want to go to grad school, and Facebook founder! (1)In defence of Mark Zuckerberg (2)How I almost killed Facebook.

...

Will the Brainy Smurf be happy

being an academic, or being in the industry

or will he be happy being an entrepreneur?

...

And also the already well-known PhD comics.

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ssh: connect to host xxxx port 22: Connection refused

Sometimes, in this complex built world,

(TEDTalks: Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster -- from scratch)

you forget about something, you took it for granted for a long while and when something doesn't work for you, you try to find the cause of the error, but cannot find it,

you delve deeper into the problem, and then,

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realise, what an obvious cause it was and you just didn't even think of it...!

Like,

1) in one of my digital circuit experiments, we thought we did everything right, but our circuit board didn't just work. We tried to find the problem for a long while and, D'OH!!! the power supply was not connected!!!

2) you started to use or moved into a house with one of the modernised kitchen equipments, and you wonder why the water on your electric cooker doen't cook!

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and you realise, you didn't notice there's an energy-saver power-timer you needed to rotate!

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3) and here's another one.

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I wanted to SSH connect to my Linux virtual machine, but kept seeing the

ssh: connect to host xxxx port 22: Connection refused

message.

I checked everything else, like firewall settings and virtualisation software settings etc.

And realised, I didn't install SSH server on the virtual machine...

D'OH!!!

(p.s. does anyone have any other good examples of those common cases?)