Category Archives: Personal

Personal blog posts and related ephemera.

Happy birthday to me! I’m joining Google

Yes friends, I’m turning 29 and I’ve decided to go work for The Man.

In all actuality, I’ve been mulling over such a move for some time, considering a number of compelling opportunities for my next step. After reviewing my options — in light of the progress I’ve made so far and my familiarity [...]

Losing my religion

Last January, writing on the problem of open source design, I said:
I’ve probably said it before, and will say it again, and I’m also sure that I’m not the first, or the last to make this point, but I have yet to see an example of an open source design process that has worked.
Indeed, I’d [...]

When all I seem to do is bitch, bitch, bitch

Ok, so I see it now. It’s not like I didn’t have some notion of it before, but now it’s really obvious.
It would seem as though I’ve become one of those mean and despised open source nut-case curmudgeons with nothing nice to say.
How soon we forget the lessons our mothers taught us.
While constructive [...]