Introduction

I wanted to start this off with an introduction and outline how I see myself using this blog.  In order to put that in perspective I need to write a little about myself and my background.

I consider myself to be more geeky than not (which is the play from the title of the blog).  I have always been into technology from before being geeky was as mainstream as it is today.  I started off in the electronics field (as a technician) before I learned enough about computers to be dangerous.  I went back to school to get my BSc in Computer Science so that I could officially claim to be a software engineer or computer scientist (you pick the term).

When I retired from the military I started my own business, originally we were the first commercial internet provider in our city.  That part of the business was sold off to a competitor, mainly to get out of what was becoming too much of a commodity, and we continued for about 7 years as a embedded software consulting firm.

When we decided to shut down the business and basically go into self employment I ended up following a contract down here to Southern California.  That turned into full time employment and a green card.  Last year I changed jobs to a different company where I am currently the Software Development Manager for a couple different product lines.  I like to this of this job as herding cats.

Over the last couple years I have also swapped money around with others while playing online poker - I look at it that way because I don't really win that much more than I lose but I have fun doing.  I recently resumed writing in my poker blog about those experiences.

I see this blog being random writings about things technical - probably mainly software but it will probably wander away from that now and again as various shiny things catch my attention.