Well traffic is starting to pick up a little...always amazes me how this happens for solitary sites...guess I'd better tell you a little about myself.
Name: Scott Galloway
Age: 34
Born: Scotland, UK
Martial Status: Single (with cat)...big and fat and I lack self confidence so this ain't gonna change any time soon!
Live: Fremont, Seattle, WA
Work: Microsoft, Redmond, Seattle
Work History: Currently Program Manager on the Project Server group, previously developer and architect for over 10 years
Interests (what am I going to write about): the future (I am a devotee of the Technological Singularity theory); programming (I've written production code in pretty much any language you can think of...); databases; architecture (both computer and building); sci-fi; health....the gamut...what I'm trying to get over to you...this is not a purely technical blog, it will be full of mad ravings.
Politics: Hmm...ultra liberal I guess, the only thing I really dislike is deliberate stupidity (i.e., just not bothering to engage your mind rather than not being able to). I'm pro pretty much everything, against any drug control, very pro-choice, pro euthanasia. Oh and I am very much anti organized religion (no problem with religious people, just don't preach to me and we'll be fine)
Music: Very varied, but not listening to as much music as I used to (blame my Howard Stern obsession for that), I like everything ranging from the Killers through Alexi Murdoch to Radiohead, Muse, Edie Brickell, Roni Spektor, the View etc...etc...
Books: I read a LOT, usually get through two paperbacks and one non-fiction book a week...spend WAY too much on Amazon! I also tend to get a bit OCD over a good book reading it straight through (I read the last Harry Potter book in 7 hours)
Acitvities: Not nearly enough, I am a bit of a loner and my favorite weekend activity is sleeping...classic geek and I really need to get out more!. I do like heading to the cinema and to lots of gigs (Seattle is great for that).
What else to tell you, well I can be dangerously honest...and this will no doubt get me in trouble at work at some point but I will try my best not to tell you any MS stuff which isn't public knowledge. Hmm...well I guess you'll find out more as I write on here again. Feel free to check out the archives (some broken links but that'll be fixed once I update the mostlylucid.co.uk URL).
I am also getting back into coding, beginning to realize that coding is a meditation for me...I always loved being in 'The Zone' and it's odd how you miss it when you stop coding. You guys who code every day are lucky...I would kill to be a full time coder again but that ain't likely right now...
Oh, and going to give a plug for an old employer StormId, probably the greatest company I ever worked for (and I've worked for a whole bunch!). If you're in the UK looking for an ASP.NET coding job, look them up...I firmly believe that web agencies (as StormId is) are THE BEST place to learn how to create web sites. If you're a developer who can't do end-to-end development you're missing out; the ability to take a site from bid right through DB design to code to server setup and launching it is the single most fulfilling thing I believe a real developer can do. It sickens me when I meet devs who know no SQL...very sad!
Anyway, a rambling post (better than the one I wrote at 4am this morning after a six-pack of Stella Artois, $9.99 for six stella, how could I not...THAT was insane :-))