Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

A Sailboat race in Puget Sound

The Seafair Pirates in Belltown

A fire in West Seattle

I’m really bad at writing my bio. This doesn’t come up often enough that I have a canned text, but it does come up more often these days. I tend to write my biography to suit the occasion, but I was checking out my friend Kevin’s website and I really liked what he did with [...]

I talk about resumes a lot. That is because I see many of them. A zillion years ago, when I first had to write a resume, all I had was a crummy pamphlet from the career center that was completely unhelpful. So, I like to help out when I can so that I don’t have [...]

My eyes are killing me.
Why the heck are you cramming so much unimportant information onto your single-sided single-page resume? You make it completely unreadable! Especially when someone (like a hiring manager) is trying to scan through hundreds of scanned pages.
Also, a new tip. Your paper resume will be scanned. It will be OCR’d. If you [...]

I’ve been giving a lot of talks over the last few years, and I’m starting to get better at it. Rands does a great how to on creating a good presentation.
Rands In Repose: Out Loud
I would add one suggestion: go watch presentations from Lawrence Lessig, Al Gore and Scott McCloud. All were really great speakers, [...]

I avoided it for years, but I finally created one. However, given my past of having my photos stolen off my website, I’m not too keen on having the photos public. So, all but 1 are only visible to friends & family. If either of those describes you, contact me through flickr.

YahooTV beta has my one and only screen credit! Of course, I’m listed as animator instead of R&D, but it’s nice that somewhere somehow my name is in a database as having worked on that show.

I just got a new Digital Rebel. Here’s one of the first photos. I’m so enjoying the workflow in LightRoom with real RAW data…

Everybody else is doin’ it, so why not me?
January 2007

Did a mock technical interview event tonight at UW (more tips for college CS students looking for a job)
Interland (web.com) sucks - part the final

February 2007

Flex, WPF/e and the new war for developer hearts and minds

March 2007

CD Music Sales Down 20%

April 2007

gee thanks, W, for restarting [...]