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nwalsh.com
Hello, and welcome to my home page. If you're browsing the web with graphics enabled, that's me over there on the right, or at least it looks vaguely like me.
The following links say a little bit more about me...
My day job. I'm a Principal Technologist. I do some development work, some evangalism, some work on international standards, some consulting, and some customer engagements. And probably other things too. It's a little early to tell. I work almost exclusively out of my home in beautiful, rural western Massachusetts (Ain't telecommuting grand?). The best way to contact me is at home.
I'm also an author.
Here's a bio that is sometimes used to describe me:
Norman Walsh is a Principal Technologist in the Information & Media Solutions team at Mark Logic Corporation. He is also an active participant in a number of standards efforts worldwide. Mr. Walsh is an elected member of the Technical Architecture Group at the W3C where he is also chair of the XML Processing Model Working Group, co-chair of the XML Core Working Group, and an active member of the XSL Working Group. At OASIS, he is chair of the DocBook Technical Committee and a member of the RELAX NG and Entity Resolution Technical Committees. He was editor of the XML Catalogs specification for the Entity Resolution Technical Committee and wrote the implementation of that OASIS Standard that is part of the XML Commons project at Apache. He was a specification lead for the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) and has participated occasionally in other XML-related JSRs.
Before joining Mark Logic, he was a XML Standards Architect at Sun Microsystems, Inc. With more than a decade of industry experience, Mr. Walsh is well known for his work on DocBook and for the numerous papers and presentations he has published. He is the principle author of DocBook: The Definitive Guide.
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More informally, I'm a skeptic, but I was also a big fan of The X-Files. Yes, I want to believe. But I don't. Like most Americans, I probably watch too much television. I usually watch Nova, Mystery, Deadwood, House, Lost, and Dr. Who Going back a few years, I was a devoted follower of Star
Trek and The Prisoner. No, I don't read enough. Technical and science stuff, mostly, and Dilbert (and Foxtrot).
I'm disorganized by nature ("hopeless" is what Deb usually says), but I find an electronic organizer can keep my life in some sort of order. I used to carry a Palm Pilot, but now I carry a Sidekick.
If you got all the way down to here, you might even be interested in my weblog.