I am a freelance computer programmer from Cambridge, Massachusetts, recreational teenage runaway capital of the world and home to Arthur Ganson's kinetic sculptures and the Brattle Theatre.

I do programming (mostly web applications) on the side, for fun and money.

I recently lived in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, working for the presidential administration of Mikheil Saakashvili.

I have lived in New York City for most of the last nine years, and currently live in wonderful (for now) Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

In my offline writing, I have written about national and international politics, technology policy, and gadgets. I think State Department Policy Planning Study 23 should be required reading, teachers should be paid like doctors, and that it should not be illegal to fast-forward dvds, or to make a list of the websites your library is blocking (1, 2), or to help others keep their communications secret.

I am interested in collaborative filtering, how-to publishing, user interface design, and folksonomies.