n which you will learn all about me; who I am, what I do, what I like, what I don't like, who my friends are, my shoe size, what I had for breakfast. In short, everything you had in mind when you wrote that check to your ISP.

home page just isn't a home page without a picture of its author to brighten the desktop of the lucky soul who has chanced upon it. So in the spirit of horrible HTML style, click... over there (here) (no, here) (no, here)

owing to popular demand, I have seen fit to divulge my deepest secrets here for all the World Wide Web to see. Finally, you'll be able to satisify your need to know more about -- yes, that's right -- me.

ere's where I work. Or where I used to work. As you can see, it's a kind of low, wide, mostly yellow place, but I call it home. Or work, rather. In the past tense, that is.
Here millions of tiny worker engineers slave in tireless service to the Hive, constantly rearranging an endless collection of bits in an unceasing effort to make the Stock Price go up. Sometimes nature is kind, and the Hive harvests a bumper crop of Profit Sharing Checks. Sometimes Lady Luck hops a freight with a traveling encyclopedia salesman and the Hive has no choice but to eat its young to survive. I'm told I was very tasty with a bit of ketchup.

You can click on the map to browse via Map Blast, if you're into that kind of thing.

nd here's where I live. At first glance, it's pretty much like where I work, but if you look closely, you'll see that it's rather more beige.

It's a lovely place, nestled amid the farms and orchards (which are a bit hard to see now that they're buried under thousands of houses) of San Jose, California, the heart (or at least the liver and kidneys) of Silicon Valley.

Nearby is Reid-Hillview airport, where I learned to fly. Slightly further away are some of the best motorcycling roads in the state. And about equidistant to the north and south are two of the worlds best known race tracks, Sears Point and Laguna Seca. In short, it's a veritable cathedral of motorsports. Halleluiah, brothers and sisters!

This map's got a link to MapQuest. Want to see what it looks like without the words?