About The Author
Bill has, at various times, been paid to:
- Write software to control dams on the lower Colorado river
- Wash dishes
- Write software to manage offshore trust funds
- Dig ditches
- Wire together giant machines the size of buildings and program them to do his bidding
- Usher people into a movie theater
- Architect one of the largest travel websites in the world
- Wait tables
- Track shaving razors, tires, beer and kitchen appliances with radio frequency identification tags
- Play the saxophone
- Work for Sun Microsystems as their consultant to other companies on Java Architecture
- Measure cattle with ultrasound, scales, hydraulics and high speed cameras
- Be the Chief Architect for the largest airline software company in the world
- Count pencils
- Play with Linux code and write device drivers for high end video broadcast and editing equipment
- Write technical non-fiction, fantasy, science fiction and the occasional horror story
Bill lives in the mountains of Northern California where he attends many wine tastings, music festivals, fairs and farmer’s markets and generally has an unreasonably good time.
