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Growing Up to be Cowboys

For the past fourteen years I have worked at various Silicon Valley start-ups as a software quality assurance engineer. When I started in the computer industry, the Internet was not readily available to the general public, the World Wide Web had not been invented yet (but I am sure Al Gore was working on it). I wrote software for Apple's Newton, was a project manager on the iPod and currently work an android based point of sale system at  Clover . I have worked on Microsoft Windows (at Microsoft), Apple's Mac OS 9 and OS X (at Apple), embedded Linux and Android (several start-ups). For fun, I play with html, CSS, JavaScript, various content management systems and things I find on the Internet. When I was young I wanted to be a cowboy. They told me there were no cowboys left in the world; I believed them. I was 37 years old when I discovered that they had lied to me. Saddest day of my life. I love cowboy culture. I find any way I can to spend as much time as I can on ranches....
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