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Life is good!

Two great kids, a loving wife, and a home in the temperate and interesting Silicon Valley. Good friends and workmates.

My current job is writing training materials for Hitachi Data Systems. We make huge computer storage devices, like the hard drive in your PC but... well, huge.

Until 2003, I worked at Cylink Corp. We produced network encryption hardware until the company was bought and gutted. My previous jobs included Chromatic Research, and Ames Research Center/NASA, Wind Tunnels to the World.

If you are really interested, check out my resume.

My interests outside my cube are:

• Volleyball -- It used to be my life. I played indoor sixman competitively from 1972 to 2000, including almost yearly participation in the USAV national championships (OK, lately in the age group play). I coached, refereed, and administered for most of those years.
• Bridge -- There are really only two card games worth playing, and to play poker, you should like cigar-flavored beer. So bridge is the game for me.
• Gardening -- When computers makes you crazy, dirty fingernails make you sane again.
• Music -- which also makes you sane. Left over from the old days of rockin in a R&R band, I still play guitar (although softer now) and like to sing a little, particularly in harmony. Check out Macajo.

Think you are a wordsmith? You might like check out a list of dissonyms. They are words with double meanings. Read the description before you look at the list. Kudos if you can come up with more than four in a few minutes.

As is the Web tradition, I have a couple of links to recommend for your enlightenment or amusement. Try web software developer/writer/philosopher Dave Winer for an intelligent, if opinionated view on technology and the world. He writes one of the longest running weblogs and evangelizes for the blogosphere.

For some great, local acoustic music, the Espresso Garden and Cafeis passed to that great hootenany in the sky. Their web site still has referals to show with artists who have not been sucked into boring mainstream of the big-five record companies.

Hope to see you soon. You can say hi at maxkernaghan@yahoo.com.

Till then ...