I’ve done many things in my life and software engineering is just one of them: I’m a licensed sea captain, a SCUBA instructor, and an underwater photographer. I’ve sailed the East Pacific “gyre” (San Francisco, Mexico, Hawai’i and back), some of it single-handed. I’ve lived in foreign countries and eaten weird things. In the end, however, I always come back to my geek roots and the challenge of doing something different.