I write software. I work at NileGuide, a.k.a. The Nile Project. Previously I've been at Radar Networks, Healthline Networks, Grand Central Communications (which became Swivel, leaving the Grand Central name to an unrelated company), Applied Biosystems, Pangea Systems in Oakland, CA (later DoubleTwist, now defunct) and CuraGen in New Haven, CT. See also Dave Schweisguth on LinkedIn.
Before that I earned a Ph.D. in biophysics in Dr. Peter Moore's laboratory at Yale. For my dissertation, I used nuclear magnetic resonance to determine the solution structures of the anticodon loops of initiator and elongator methionine tRNA. They turn out to be exactly the same, which is surprising to tRNA aficionadi.
Here are articles I wrote for JavaWorld on a quirk of Java exception handling and the second generation of aspect-oriented programming frameworks. Here's another Java language oddity which I'd write up if I could think of a use for it. Here's a blog I just started to pass along things that took a little figuring out. The single post so far is technical; let's see if the idea has legs.
While a graduate student, I helped out with the Silicon Graphics FAQs and the documentation for tcsh.
Here's my professional credo, which I found on the web several years ago.
I currently coordinate the Juri Commoners, the volunteer group for Juri Commons, the park on my block. Join us in taking care of the park on the last Saturday of most months. See the Yahoo group for details.
I'm interested in my genealogy; maybe you are too. I'm particularly interested in the surnames Schweisguth (also Schweisgut, Schweißgut(h), Schweissgut(h), Schweiszgut(h) and Sweisguth), Couche, Bèlé, Alleg, Gasser, Raab, Kundratis and Yochman. Here's my RootsWeb Surname List entry, with more alternate spellings. If any of those names sound familiar, see my family tree (GEDCOM).
Speaking of family matters, here are
Also of historical interest is the blog where our gang once chronicled pub quiz and other entertaining pursuits.
I've been systematically exploring San Francisco for years (recently with the invaluable help of Huxley Beagle). The evidence is starting to show up at sfgazetteer.com.
I recently began maintaining and hosting Guess Where Watcher, the scoring software for the Guess Where San Francisco Flickr group. For the source code, see Guess Where Watcher on github.
Finally, you might want to look at my hotlist.
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