I am a programmer, er "Senior Software Engineer" in the Sacramento CA area.

I actually like working on computers, when it's not dealing with somebody else's abandoned foul mess.

Present and past employer mandated golden hammers: Java; SQL; C; xBase.

Other oddments of occasional on the job use or personal interest: Perl; JavaScript; Ruby; C++; (Turbo) Pascal.

I have a family at home, and no cats; no blog about cats :-) (we do have dogs, though, but I don't blog about those, either) I make my family run Linux, because I'm evil, and my wife is happy as long as The Google works and keeps working. Maybe next year I'll set up VMWare or something, so every (virtual) Windows start is an automatic fresh reinstall!