Update

I haven't written much in the way of new blog articles for a long time. Work consumes. But I have been busy updating some existing articles. Today I wrote an addendum to We Shape Our Tools And Then Our Tools Shape Us to include some serious upgrades to my field support capability for air travel. If you take a dead serious approach to field support like I do, you'll like the what you see. (Go all the way to the end of the article.)

James Mickens: The Night Watch

In his article The Night Watch computer science researcher James Mickens has described so succinctly what I have done for a living since 1976 that reading his article I alternated between laughing out loud (really) and weeping (almost).

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightwatch.pdf

(Human Computer Interaction) people discover bugs by receiving a concerned email from their therapist. Systems people discover bugs by waking up and discovering that their first-born children are missing and "ETIMEDOUT"' has been written in blood on the wall.

To say that this article sums up my day to day life for the past several decades is like saying the Universe is a middlin' large place. (And despite all that, it's been a very good life.)

In It For the Long Run

Journalist Brian Hall interviews me on what it's like to be the poster child for not letting your tech skills become obsolete in How to Thrive In The Tech Industry For Decades.