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Technology book I'm reading now: Howes et al, Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services.

Fun book I'm reading now: Patrick O'Brian, The Wine Dark Sea. It's been a while since I've read one of the Aubrey/Maturin adventures. They're fun!

It's fun to search for your name on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee calls this "vanity surfing." TobyVanitySurf

My Christmas list: TobyXmasList2000.

Given that I've had a little time on my hands I've been playing around with application development technologies. The combination of databases, scripting languages, and Web user interfaces is incredibly powerful! If you haven't played around with perl or php then you owe it to yourself to find the time to do so.

I've decided that my days of playing LP records are just about over. OTOH, I've got lots of cool (and not so cool) music on LpRecords. So I was pleased to run across bplay/brec and lame which let you record and mp3 encode pretty much anything that you can pipe into your soundcard. I've been using them to record my LP's into MP3. I'm currently at the point where I can play my records from work, which is fun. If only there were cheap broadband wireless...

When I'm not using the computer (and for most of the CPU time when I am my spare cycles go to the SETI project. Despite my meager PII/266, I seem to be <a href="http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?email=toby.cabot%40pobox .com&cmd=user_stats">doing pretty well, although I've fallen out of the top 5%. Seems i've got an excuse to get a new PC! I wonder if Vicky would agree.

Here's my resume (courtesy of Pronet), and an informal resume (actually an email that I wrote to a friend).

At work I'm the CTO of a small software company called SaltFire which builds business infrastructure for communications carriers. I'm one of the founders and I'm having a blast! We're hiring so please send your resume to toby@saltfire.com.

Before SaltFire I worked for Kenan Systems as a director in the software development group, at various times in charge of architecture, development, and performance groups. We were a cool little independent software company until the founder got greedy and sold out to Lucent in early '99. "Welcome to the Bell System, employee number 156,892. Please see the nurse for your implant."

Before that I lived in Rhode Island and worked for GTECH. The technology is interesting and the people are great but after the founders left it started to feel too much like a Dilbert cartoon, so I moved back home to Boston.

If you have comments or suggestions, please email me at toby@caboteria.org. I love to get non-SPAM email.

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