George Lee (was Re: Oppose the SSSCA (government policeware on your PC) Petition)

[George Lee <http://www.portents.ne.mediaone.net/~george>]

> Nothing.

Know any cool/fun jobs?

Truexchange shut their doors the last day in January.  I've been looking
for another job, but haven't had that many interviews yet.  (Granted, I
just came back from a week at Disney World last night... I wonder walking
into interviews with a golfer's tan is going to have a negative effect)

Sorry to hear about your company, though.  If I run by something on MIT's
course list, I'll pass it along.

I'm half-surprised your company is doing poorly, given the fact it bought
two companies.  On the other hand, part of the reason I left was that I
wasn't convinced there was a sound plan for the classification engine.
(Not that I knew a lot about the business direction of the company back
then... I don't know, I had my head deep in the sand back then... didn't
see the forest from the trees... didn't *know* forests were made up of
trees, that sort of thing.  The advice Marc gave me before I left, about
being aggressive in finding something that interests me and work hard on
it, rings true; it's too bad I decided to find that thing somewhere else.)

Jonathan's resume showed up at Truexchange, if I remember correctly.  It's
too bad we didn't move on him; Truexchange could have used a voice of
reason.  Glad Jen and Debbi found work; sounds like the idea of having
verticals fell through.

I've also talked to Matthew; glad his search worked out.  I wonder if
http://www.eDonkey2000.com has a boston office... ;)  (I saw his
fuzrocks.com site, also.  Good stuff; kept me unproductive at work for
hours on end.) ;)  (BTW, Matt and I shared an office just before I left.
Yeah, we got to know each other a little bit... and Matt got to know the
monster piles of papers on my desk. ;) )

Say hi to Lionel, Marc, Bob, John, etc. for me.  I hope the classification
engine doesn't fall through; I know you and Marc and everyone else have
put a lot of work into it and it sucks whenever a well-developed product
completely gets dumped. :\

Anyhow, it's more http://Monster.com, laundary, and Grand Thief Auto 3 for
me!

ttyl,

George

> My company is basically not selling anything, so I suspect we'll
> eventually go under any day now (at least, the classification part -- the
> other parts may live).
> 
> Noelle and I went to Ca in Jan for vacation.  'Twas fun.
> Poeple are way nice out there.  (I also interviewed, but they told me well
> into the interview that there were currently no openings there :-(.)  I
> would like to move back there eventually, but the job market's even worse
> out there.
> 
> Mark Reimers moved to Sweden.  So far, he likes it.
> 
> We had a bunch of lay-offs in September -- about 15%.  Jen, Debbi,
> Jonathan, and (I don't know if you knew him) Matthew
> were among the victims.  Jen's doing temp work, Debbi's consulting,
> and Jonathan's still looking.  Matthew has moved to NYC for this
> way-cool job (www.eDonkey2000.com).  He found it on Craigslist.org
> 
> I'll put you on my Solstice list so you get my regular updates; I'll
> include the last one below, in case you're interested...
> 

*snip interesting tale of a year of travel, biking, rallies, and skunks
high on St. John's Wart*

P.S. Thanks for forwarding the newsletter; sounds like you've had quite a
year. :)