I was born in London, England, though we moved to New York before I was a year old (we journeyed on the Queen Mary, as it happens, and it was not, I understand, exactly like the romantic lower steerage of the film "Titanic"). Just before I turned ten we moved to Los Angeles, and when I graduated High School, I went to the University of California, San Diego for my undergraduate degree (Computer Science, with a minor in Philosophy).

The day I received my degree I accepted a job with Hewlett-Packard's Colorado Networks Operation, and while there began creation of The Elm Mail System, a Unix email application that remains popular today. HP's R&D Labs in Palo Alto offered me a transfer position to help with some AI research, so I moved to California in the late 1980's. A few years later, I'd quit HP and launched Intuitive Systems, a consulting business that I continue to run. Clients have included the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Apple Computer, The Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, and more.

Among my freelance writing gigs during this period were "Sun Tech Journal" (later sold to IDG and renamed "SunWorld"), "InfoWorld", "MacWorld", "The HP Chronicles", "Sun Expert" and a cast of dozens more. I also wrote my first book, somewhat to my own surprise: "Global Software", all about software internationalization. It never sold that well (wrong publisher) but showed me that writing a book was surprisingly similar to writing an article, just, well, longer.

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