About

This blog has been a place for me to share my journey from working on custom applications software in IT service companies, to getting back into computer science.

I received my BSCS in 1993 from Colorado State University. I worked for IT service companies for 7 years (when I could), but a few years ago I felt like something was missing–the reason I got into this stuff in the first place. This blog partly documents my process of reacquiring that raison d’être I had many years ago.

I’ve been an independent student for a few years, trying to get beyond what undergrad CS taught me, to something richer and more powerful–an outlook on what computing represents, one that has been lost. I’ve been very inspired by the research that was done in the Information Processing Techniques Office in the ARPA program in the 1960s, and the research at Xerox PARC in the 1970s.

I don’t have all the answers I seek yet. I hope that this blog will be like “bread crumbs” I can leave behind for you, who are perhaps now where I was when I started this journey, so that you can come to the same realizations I have, and perhaps branch off on your own enlightenment journeys.

What I’d encourage you to do is if you want to follow my “bread crumbs”, go back to one of my earliest posts, and read on from there. What I have left behind is a trail of thought from the time I first began to realize there was something more exciting about computing. Along the way I’ve occasionally gotten off into other subjects, but the main focus here has been to share what I’ve discovered.

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Comments Policy

I really appreciate comments to my posts, however there are some guidelines I feel I need to make clear. I will apply these on a case by case basis.

If a comment is totally off topic (ie. not even tangential to what’s being discussed) I will delete it. Please make your comments and any links you include in your messages have some relevance to what’s being talked about.

I reserve the right to remove website links (entered in the “Website” box of a comment) from comments if they link to sites that appear to be totally or mostly commercial, have no discernable non-commercial content, and in addition have no relevance to what’s being discussed. To me this is as bad as posting spam. This isn’t to say that any time you include a link in a comment it should be non-commercial. You may include commercial links in your messages if they are relevant to the discussion.

If you have a homepage that talks about what you’re up to, your hobbies, etc., or have a blog where you talk about current events, your interests, etc., feel free to put it in the “Website” box of your comment. In this case it doesn’t have to be relevant to the discussion. I’m not going to be a stickler if you have a few ads on your site either.

In short what I’m trying to prevent are people putting links on my blog that go to pages full of ads and hardly anything but ads that have no redeeming value other than trying to generate revenue from page views, clicks, etc. If you’re not doing that then you have nothing to worry about. If you’re the owner of a site such as what I describe, feel free to post a comment, but please leave off the link to your website.

I think this will work out. I reserve the right to change this policy at any time. If I do, I’ll let you know.

Thanks.