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March 15, 1999
Great googly-boogly, I'm a father! Pictures and info on my son's homepage.

January 19, 2000
This page may finally begin to rise from the ashes. I haven't updated in nearly two years, and a lot has happened. Betsy is pregnant with our son (due in the middle of March). We also just purchased a house, in San Carlos (in fact, the movers are packing our old place while I'm writing this). GoodNoise long ago became EMusic.com, Inc, and I'm now Vice President of Technology. EMusic now has 85 employees (up from 5 when I joined), and when we close the Tunes.com deal, that number will be over 200. It's been a crazy, busy couple of years, and it's only going to get crazier. Obviously, all the work links dealing with PGP no longer apply. None of these pictures of me are anywhere near accurate, as I now have a beard, and short hair.

April 2, 1998
Well, I've resigned from PGP, Inc. I'm now Vice President of Engineering for a really small startup call GoodNoise. We're essentially an Internet record company. So far, it's incredibly fun. Fun is something that has been lacking around here for quite some time.

Sunday, October 19, 1997
No, I'm not exactly so lazy that I haven't updated this page in five months - it's really only been two. Sadly, we got hacked at the end of August and the newest backup I had was from the beginning of June, so I lost all my updates. I've been too busy putting the basics back together to get in an update.
PGP 5.0 for Unix is long shipped, and I'm now in the design phase of 5.5 for Unix.
I have a beard now. Pictures coming someday.

Friday, May 23, 1997
Well, we're finally prime-time with this new page, almost four months since I began work on it!
Yesterday I acquired drwho.com for Betsy. My work on PGP 5.0 for Windows is now complete, and I have the honor and privledge of now working on PGP 5.0 for Unix (initial development under Linux).

Saturday, April 19, 1997
Obviously, I haven't had much time to update this. Cookie Cutter shipped a little while back. I'm currently working on PGPmail 5.0 for Windows. The exciting news of the day is that I've been officially promoted by PGP to be "Senior Member of Technical Staff" (I think that's the title; we'll find out when I get my business cards, I suppose). This basically reflects my day-to-day duties accurately, now (so it's pretty much an after-the-fact sort of a promotion as opposed to a "Here's new stuff for you to do" sort of promotion). There aren't enough hours in the day for me to do much more, so that's a good thing! In other news, Betsy has started working for Adobe, at the help desk. It's her first job in the computer industry; I'm very proud of her, and she seems to really enjoy it.

Saturday, Feb. 1, 1997
Well, PGPmail 4.5 has finally shipped. I'm taking a breather for a few days, then I'm off to work on PGPcookie.cutter for a bug or two and then moving on to other (as yet unspecified) cool things.


My old page is still available.
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