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Since you are visiting my site, you might be interested in knowing something about me.

I grew up in Cos Cob, Connecticut just an hour or so from New York City. In 1985, I earned a B.A. from Brandeis University in Politics with a minor in Medieval Studies.

After I graduated from Brandeis, I took a six-week trip backpacking around Europe - my first big trip!

In 1988, I got a M.A. in Computer Science from Boston University. Much of what I learned in grad school is now obsolete. The web didn't even exist then!

After grad school, I moved to the San Francisco Bay area and took a job developing software for Oracle. After a mere eleven years with them, I took a leave of absence to take my second big trip. I visited the South Pacific and part of Asia.

Soon after my return to the U.S., I took a job at Scient, an eBusiness consulting company. While there, I traveled on business to such interesting places as Omaha, Nebraska.

After a year at Scient, I quit to go traveling in Europe. While traveling, I had developed an interest in Anthropology. Upon my return, I took two semesters of Anthropology courses at the University of California, Berkeley.

I spent the summer of 2001 in Alaska with my girlfriend Susan, and starting in December 2001 we drove across the United States from New Hampshire to California. Never ones to do things the easy way, we took six months to make the trip!