The Pursuit of a Life – Wouldn't you rather be writing code?

Day two of NaBloPoMo is much harder than Day one. On the first day, I was excited, a little nervous, but optimistic and eager to get to the keyboard.
Today, day two, it’s already well into the evening and I am just now sitting down to write something. Inertia is real, people, and it’s not pretty....

I have not blogged in a REALLY long time. There are a bunch of reasons, which I may explore later in the month, but first, an announcement: I am on board with NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) – see http://nablopomoguideunofficial.blogspot.com...

Last night I trekked down to the Whitepages office in downtown Seattle to hear Michael Uschold speak about triplestores, graph databases, and related topics. This was a meetup organized by the Seattle/Bellevue Graphs Meetup.
It’s not something I know a whole lot about but I’m interested in language semantics and have a general kind of idea that graph databases are good (great?) at allowing you to extract sometimes messy relationships from a diverse set of more-or-less connected...

The other day I went out for a 4+ hour interview loop at a company here in Seattle. Regarding the amount of time I gave up, reaction among friends ranged from neutral to “I would never work at a company that asked me to give up that much time for an...