The Opinionated Bastard

I'm back! I'll be posting later in the week my take on the last few months of Brookings reports, and my take on the DOD report. In the meantime, about me and where I've been: I've been job hunting since about February of this year. Since what I do is high-end internet development, you might think that would be a breeze, but I had some handicaps. * I couldn't use the internet to advertise that I was available because I didn't want my employer to know I was looking. * I'm a pretty high-end guy. I'm the person you hire not to “put your business on the web”, but to transform your business in such a way that you completely crush your competitors by streamlining your entire business model. So I'd reached the point in my career where the sort of job I was looking for wasn't the sort of job that is advertised; they're the kind of jobs that you can only find via an executive recruiter, and I didn't know any. Basically, I'm in the 6-figure tier now. I had just realized I needed to change my whole approach and start working with executive recruiters, when I happened upon [PACE Anti-Piracy](http://www.paceap.com). They're sort of the locksmiths of the computer industry. So I'm now the Director of Web Services for them. I started there August 1st, but if you know how it goes when you start a new job, you'll know I haven't really had time until now to poke my head above water. So blogging has been a ways down on the list lately, especially because they had deployed a new version of the website the day before I got there... It's now getting to the point at work where all the fires are put out, so I can start planning the next stages of development. So that means I can start blogging again instead of coming home exhausted. Currently, I'm living temporarily in Cupertino for 90 days while I convince my new bosses that yes, I am awesome, and yes I can accomplish things without them watching me. Then I can go back to Flagstaff. It's a little tough being without my wife, and living in what I call Consumerland. Luckily, another ex-Marketocracy employee had recently started at Apple, so I'm living with him for the duration. So that helps prevent me from being too lonely. Anyways, that's the news, and that's why I haven't been blogging much.