Mike Rowehl
What is this?
I have a bunch of random stuff spread all over the Interweb. I had a closed down consulting company that I was still using the domain for, a new and still active blog about mobility, a site for blog and RSS/Atom related hacks, a site for mobile software and info. All over! A certain someone has been pestering me to pull it all together in one place and start cleaning it up, so here goes. I actually own rowehl.com, so it seemed like the logical place to put this stuff.
About Mike Rowehl
I'm a programmer living in San Mateo, California in the United States - an area generally known as Silicon Valley. I was going to write some summary info in here, but I think a nice simple list of quick points would do this more justice:
- My main web presence is my mobility focused weblog, This is Mobility.
- I'm working on a link exchange for mobile websites.
- I was co-founder of defunct startup called Mowser, a service for making the web available to mobile phones.
- Recently worked as Director of Technology at AdMob, a bidded marketplace for mobile advertising.
- I recently worked at Ning, a free platform for hosting social applications. Check out my pivot page to see what I'm doing.
- Russ and I run the Mobile Monday Silicon Valley meetings.
- Huge open source fan.
- My hosting provider is Server Matrix.
- Don't use Windows, I moved Windows off my personal systems in favor of Linux some time during 1998 and haven't even glanced back.
- My current distro of choice is Ubuntu.
- Spent a long time doing Linux embedded systems development.
- My Scheme environment of choice is DrScheme.
- Self taught, I never finished college. Got bored and wandered off, never wandered back. No one seems to care.
- Treasurer of the Jason Morse fan club.
- Grew up on Long Island, which is kinda like this big strip mall that extends out from New York City. I didn't like it then, and I don't like it now.
- Animation and anime fan. Ghost in the Shell is right up at the top of my list, as is Serial Experiments Lain.
- My favorite band of all time is Tool.
- I'm El Presidente at Modern Despot.
- Other time sinks are a 350Z and a CBR 900RR.
