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This is where I will be posting public content from my professional life as well as aspects of my personal life and hobbies. After 30 years of developing products and software systems for the Internet, I am finally starting to put a bit more public information on the Internet. As with nearly everything else on the Internet, this is very much a work in progress.

Latest blog post

Book review: The Best American Essays 2024, ed. by Wesley Morris

tl;dr: A decent selection that skews heavily in favor of guest editor Wesley Morris’s background and biases...

We all like stories and essays that relate to our own personal experiences. This includes The Best American Essays 2024 guest editor Wesley Morris, who made the final selection of twenty-one essays for this lengthier-than-usual volume. Why twenty-one, when the page count was already high and the usual count is twenty? I suspect that one of them is a personal selection of Mr. Morris, which is permitted under the series rules...

A book cover with the title in a white block at the top and the editor's name in a block towards the bottom, over an abstract multi-colored painting of what might be flowers and parts of plants


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