I'd rather listen to Newton than to (Microsoft VP Craig Mundie). He may have been dead for almost three hundred years, but despite that he stinks up the room less. - Linus Torvalds
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Technology book I'm reading now: Fowler, Martin;
UML Distilled Second Edition - the UML is a de facto standard way of describing computer software using pictures. It's a product of a branch of the industry that I despise (the CASE/process/methods/CMM whiners) but let's face it, there is no common language for describing software and this is pretty good.
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/450, I seem to be doing pretty well.
Here's my
resume (courtesy of
Pronet),
and an
informal resume (actually an email that I
wrote to a friend). Note to recruiters: the online copy of my resume at this site is authoritative. Please do
not ask me to send you a copy in Word format.
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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