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My team and I played a major part in making this new online service launch a reality. Go check it out at http://www.photoshop.com/express.

My team and I played a part in making this software release a reality. It’s great to see it hitting the stores and getting rave reviews.

I got tired of running out of space on my TiVo Series3 DVR especially after recording every episode of “Planet Earth“, so I finally decided to expand the storage space on it. (more…)

Over the Holiday BreakChristmas Break I decided to take care of some overdue maintenance on my home PC, a Dell Dimension 8400. The primary system disk (160GB SATA) that had shipped with the PC was consistently showing up in the WinXP Event Log with I/O errors during paging operations. Meanwhile, the primary data disk (250GB SATA) I had retrofitted into the system kept showing up in WinXP Disk Manager as having errors that would go away only to return next time. Several years of accumulated cruft in the WinXP installation was starting to show, suggesting that it was about time for one of those occasions where WinXP just needs to get re-paved.

Now, I’ve done more than my fair share of PC surgeries over the years, yet little did I know what Dell had in store for me… (more…)

As of September 29th, I no longer work at TiVo. I left after 6 years of developing TiVo DVR platforms and changing the way people watch TV. It was a lot of fun but in the end it was also time to look for a fresh new challenge that would allow me to stretch my experience in a different direction.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

I will start working at Adobe Systems on October 9th as Sr. Manager of Engineering, Online Services and Photoshop Elements. I will be developing and launching several new online services related to digital imaging and digital asset management.