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I live with my wife and two boys in Ballard, Seattle. We live in an old Craftsman that I'm finally getting around to fixing up.
Work
I'm a front-end developer at the University of Washington School of Law, and I'd like to stay here until I retire and collect my lovely union pension.
I manage the public facing website as well as email marketing, and collaborate with Law IT on the help desk and other projects. I'm currently focusing on web standards and accessibility. I am a UW IT Accessibility Liaison and a UW Information Security Advocate, and participate in the Accessible Web, Front-end Technologies, User Experience & Design Thinking and Web Council communities of practice.
I've been trying to get better about documentation, which is especially important since I'm now working on several API implementations, including a home grown API for our personnel database that I'm really excited about. I also joined the W3C Documentation Community Group and need to get involved. I attended one meeting and they were lovely, but I was terrified. Baby steps, old man!
Reading Habits
I recently finished Animal Farm by George Orwell, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans, and Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut.
I'm currently reading Worlds of Exile and Illusion by Ursula K. Le Guin, Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance by John Berger, and Trouble boys by Bob Mehr.
I'm planning to read Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman, Love, Death & Photosynthesis by Bela Koe-Krompecher, Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki, and Nerd Inferno: The Essential Evan Dorkin by Evan Dorkin.