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About Me

I'm an engineering manager and lead software engineer with a little company called deCarta, best known as the software behind most of the preeminent digital mapping and direction services. I specialize in map translation software (which is of interest to absolutely nobody outside of where I work). I'm also a hard-core philatelist, for what that's worth.

Support These Groups!

• The Duke Lemur Center. They actively study and work to preserve endangered primate species in Madagascar. These species aren't in danger because they're not viable - in fact, they're very viable. They're in danger because people actively destroy their habitats, and in some cases, actively hunt them down. This is a hands-on, effective conservation facility that deserves to be supported.
• Sunnyvale Community Services. Local community services at their most effective.

Quotes to Live By

When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am the friend of its happiness: when these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and its government. - Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

Principles only mean something if you stick to them when they're inconvenient - The Contender

Decisions are made by those who show up. - The West Wing