Paul's World

In a thread in the GenSuck message board No Excluse! Nomination, PostToasties asks in a message from 20 Aug 2003, “Did we really think that Genealogy.com would positively influence MyFamily?” I hope PostToasties understands that when a company is acquired, in order for the acquired company to influence the acquirer, the acquirer has to be [...]

Chris Anderson works for Microsoft. He answered an “all hands on deck” call at Microsoft to help answer technical support calls due of the MSBlast virus. His experience is something that everyone should have.

By my count, there are 11 people (Cheryl, Keith, Paul, Drew, Gigi, Dave, Jeff, Annie, Leslie, Ivan, and Peter) from the Genealogy.com development team now working in the Resumix division at Yahoo!. Having worked with each of these people for years it’s clear that MyFamily.com, Inc.’s loss has been Yahoo!’s gain. I’m not quite sure [...]

As previously mentioned, I met with the VP at PayCycle this afternoon. The company is located in a small building on El Camino Real in Palo Alto. Although I saw the office only from the reception area (and conference room), it reminded me of the early days at Banner Blue. It had the same focused [...]

The family and I (along with another family) went camping at our usual location, Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. It’s close enough to civilization (Felton, CA) and has the amenities that my wife requires (toilets and showers). We spent a day at the beach which featured spectacular weather.

Warning Parents About Internet Predators—from the LATimes.com

A time line: • 1984 — Banner Blue Software founded • 1989 — Banner Blue Software released first DOS version of Family Tree Maker • January 1994 — Banner Blue Software hired Paul Burchfield • Late 1994 — Banner Blue Software acquired Automated Archives • May 1995 — Banner Blue acquired by Broderbund Software • [...]

I had a phone screen today with someone from Cloudmark. Since being prepared for interviews is a good thing, I had decided to bone up a bit. I’d used Cloudmark’s consumer product, Spamnet, while it was in beta so I had a good idea of how it worked (and had always noted that people who’d [...]

My friend, Paul (known sometimes as Pablo to avoid confusion with me), told me he had been sending out resumes for a month before he started receiving nibbles. Since I only started sending out resumes after returning from my daughter’s national dance finals, this week marks my one-month time period. So far this week – [...]

My wife has put up with me for 14 years!. God bless her.