Software engineer.  Former LiterateProgramming addict.  MyersBriggs ENTJ.
Mathematics PhD, with special interest in category theory,
recursive function theory, and theory of automata. Former RecentChangesJunkie.
Teetering on the edges of becoming a VeryOldPerson, or at least an OldTimer.

I recently (May, 2000) read ZenAndTheArtOfMotorcycleMaintenance,
which has changed my outlook on work and on life in general.

Currently employed by L''''''exisNexis, where I have been trying
to promote WikiInTheWorkplace.  I wrote my own Wiki variant
(based originally on Ward's code, but now about 7 times as large
and with almost none of the original code left) and have used it
to create several ProjectWiki and TeamWiki sites at work.
(In hindsight what I really should have set up was a WikiFarm,
but that wasn't clear until I had nearly a dozen independent instances
of Wiki.) Wiki has been enormously useful to ''me'' at work,
but my attempts to sell it to others have met with mixed success.

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So far, my greatest contributions to the WikiWikiWeb are an idea
for a WikiWikiThemeSong, and a semi-doggerel PetrarchanSonnet
in PoemWiki.  I'll try to be more constructive and less OffTopic
in the future.

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An anecdote about me:

When I was preparing for my oral exams (en route to a PhD),
I knew that I would be nervous when the Big Day came.
I wanted to lead off with an ice-breaker to quickly dissipate the
tension in the room.  So I had a T-shirt made up with the following
motto on it (which, as far as I know, is original with me):

	 :	Logic, logic everywhere, but not a thought to think.

(It helps to know that my major subject was mathematical logic.)
This had the desired effect: I walked into the room, the examiners
read the shirt, they cracked up, and a friendly atmosphere was
established.  (And I passed the exam.) 

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