About Me

Published 9/24/07

This is the blow-my-own-horn page. I don’t sound like this in real life. Honest.

The Quick and Dirty

I’m a veteran (15+ years) technology writer who’s worked for magazines, newspapers, and Web sites including PC Magazine, USA Today, CNET, and most recently the Roanoke (Va.) Times and Blue Ridge Business Journal. My work’s appeared in those pubs, plus the Columbus Dispatch, Kiplinger’s, and Smart Money magazine, to name a few.

I’ve also been a magazine editor, have launched three publications, created too many Web sites to name, done marketing and PR work, and am in the process of raising my karmic comeuppance in the form of a seven-year-old son.

So yeah, I keep busy.

Yet more

I love science and history, and I spend way too much time teaching myself about all sorts of odd subjects. These mini-obsessions last a week or two.

I overthink things.

I’m a second-rate amateur photographer and I love image and video editing. I enjoy thinking about the presentation of information — what’s the best way to tell someone what they need to know?

My degree’s in philosophy. It’s been more useful than you might think.

I mock everything. I take few things seriously. Apparently this makes me a bad person.

I find coolness in the mundane.

I’m the guy in the office who everyone comes to if they need computer troubleshooting, want to buy a digital camera, feel like starting a blog, and so on.