PSAs

I am on the verge of punting Diesel. Comments favoring the punt or not-punt options will be taken into consideration.

I am once again skipping huge chunks of LJ. I enjoy when my friends point me at things that are worthwhile to read.

Order your Serenity shirts awreddy. I still need to find someone who has vending space at Arisia and have no leads at present.

I will have something more significant to say Real Soon Now, I promise.

PSAs

I am on the verge of punting Diesel. Comments favoring the punt or not-punt options will be taken into consideration.

I am once again skipping huge chunks of LJ. I enjoy when my friends point me at things that are worthwhile to read.

Order your Serenity shirts awreddy. I still need to find someone who has vending space at Arisia and have no leads at present.

I will have something more significant to say Real Soon Now, I promise.

There goes an American treasure

Lewis Lapham is stepping down as editor of Harper's. At least he'll continue to write his Notebooks column.

"After 30 years of editing Harper's," he said, "I've arrived at the point where I would prefer to read Machiavelli than listen to Karl Rove."

Well, who wouldn't.

There goes an American treasure

Lewis Lapham is stepping down as editor of Harper's. At least he'll continue to write his Notebooks column.

"After 30 years of editing Harper's," he said, "I've arrived at the point where I would prefer to read Machiavelli than listen to Karl Rove."

Well, who wouldn't.

Pointer re-revision

Monday (yesterday) I started work at a new company. It is called Newforma, and is located in Manchester, NH. My official title is Senior Product Designer. They need someone to own design and user testing activities and have been trying to fill this position for over a year.

Work email: awexelblat@newforma.com (though wex@ also works)
Work phone: +1(603) 625-6212 x334
Fax: +1(603) 218-6145
Address: 670 North Commercial Street
Suite 10 (River Entrance)
Manchester, NH 03101

I'm employee #35 in the NH office, and they have a small 5-person group out in California.

The product is a tool suite intended to help architecture, engineering, contracting, and construction (acronym AECO) businesses manage their documents and document processes. Since even a medium-sized project can generate many gig of data and a large one quickly creates terabytes of drawings, CAD models, specifications, manifests, schedules, etc - this is a problem crying out for solution and so far no one has a good custom answer.

The product itself is about to go into second beta with a tightly controlled group of customers. Some are paying, but the company is largely venture-financed and has just closed an $8m Series B round (*) under favorable terms. There will likely be a general-availability release of the product early next year though that's somewhat dependent on how this release goes.

I took a bit of a pay cut to come here, but not too bad, given that it's a start-up. Of course there are the usual options but I don't worry too much about that. The company has the important benefits, including vacation and medical/dental.

( Chatty personal stuff... )

Pointer re-revision

Monday (yesterday) I started work at a new company. It is called Newforma, and is located in Manchester, NH. My official title is Senior Product Designer. They need someone to own design and user testing activities and have been trying to fill this position for over a year.

Work email: awexelblat@newforma.com (though wex@ also works)
Work phone: +1(603) 625-6212 x334
Fax: +1(603) 218-6145
Address: 670 North Commercial Street
Suite 10 (River Entrance)
Manchester, NH 03101

I'm employee #35 in the NH office, and they have a small 5-person group out in California.

The product is a tool suite intended to help architecture, engineering, contracting, and construction (acronym AECO) businesses manage their documents and document processes. Since even a medium-sized project can generate many gig of data and a large one quickly creates terabytes of drawings, CAD models, specifications, manifests, schedules, etc - this is a problem crying out for solution and so far no one has a good custom answer.

The product itself is about to go into second beta with a tightly controlled group of customers. Some are paying, but the company is largely venture-financed and has just closed an $8m Series B round (*) under favorable terms. There will likely be a general-availability release of the product early next year though that's somewhat dependent on how this release goes.

I took a bit of a pay cut to come here, but not too bad, given that it's a start-up. Of course there are the usual options but I don't worry too much about that. The company has the important benefits, including vacation and medical/dental.

( Chatty personal stuff... )