Why did I leave?  There are a myriad of reasons, most best discussed over beer or scotch.  I liked AirDat and it was what I needed at the time.  I learned a lot about HPC and weather forecasting and worked with some really cool, really smart people.  Ultimately I got to the point where I needed to have some different challenges and be more involved in some of the decisions that were being made.   I wish those guys the best I really hope they succeed, they have some killer technology that could prove to be really useful if they can get everything to fall into place.

At Glencoe I will be their sysadmin supporting not only the corporate endeavors for our products but also supporting and working on the OME and it’s other open source projects.  It’s exciting to get back into the open source world, as well as dive into the informatics world and the challenges that lie within.

Another big change with the move to Glencoe is that I’m now working from home full-time.  I’ve converted part of my house to a home office and the family and I are trying to adjust to this as well as me working closer to UK/GMT time.  It’s something I’ve been wanting to do for some time and I’ve finally got the opportunity and plan to make the most of it.

The only photos that will be public are the ‘style’ type photos.  All the personal stuff will be Friend/Family only as appropriate.  I’m sure a time will come when I may want to be able to see pictures of my kids but for right now I’m going to protect their privacy.  Joining flickr is free and I recommend anyone interested in joining and adding me as a contact.  I’ll return the favor and you can see all the cuteness/etc to your hearts content.

The photostream will pull in on the sidebar and can be found directly at http://flickr.com/photos/stickm

As a family we’ve been really busy as well.  T went back to work part time and it’s working out really really well.  C gets to spend time with a friend of his (rather than some big day care which is good), but Mommy also gets to spend time with him.  Work for me is going alright but I do have a new boss, we’ll see how it works out in the long run.  I took a couple of trips that I’ll discuss in other posts but all in all they were very good.  I love to leasure travel but doing it away from my little boy and my honey is tough.

Recently I’ve become quite addicted to twitter, most my limited ‘blogging’ occurs there since it’s very quick and I don’t have to sit down and think about what I’m going to write.  It really appeals to the ADD side of my brain (ooohhh shiney thing…).  I’m not convinced how twitter is going to stay in business since they don’t really have a revenue model that I’ve seen.  I suppose they’ll fall back on the ‘We get a ton of traffic so we equate that into ad revenue.’ business model.  As far as I’m concerned right now google is the only one that can actually make money with that model and sustain a full time business.  But I’m a systems guy not an economic guy.

The election has come and gone.  I won’t really talk about it much because it’s for the most part over and we have to live with this decision for the next four years, good or bad.  If you’re really interested in political (and or economic) theory check out my friends over at demwits.com.  They do way more research than I do.

So hopefully I’ll start posting more and it will actually be interesting or relavent.  I’ll probably do an iphone post now that I’ve had mine for some time as well as a recap of LISA 2008.

Also during my recent wordpress upgrade I aslo setup a mobile optimized site.  It’s probably pretty iphone specific since I can’t really test it with a blackberry, etc.  It’s all sorts of ajaxy so it may be slightly slow, but drop some commets if it’s horrible.