{"id":17,"date":"2005-04-15T22:56:28","date_gmt":"2005-04-15T13:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/jfriedl-links\/about"},"modified":"2008-07-22T20:56:51","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T11:56:51","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/jfriedl-links\/about","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#misc li { padding-bottom: 0.3em; }\n#emp  li { padding-bottom: 1em; }\n.h1      { margin-top:35px }\n<\/style>\n\n<div class='img_right' style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='\/blog\/2012-09-18\/2094'><img class='rawx' width='200' src='\/jfriedl-portrait.jpg'\/><\/a>\n<br\/>me\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I played drums in 5<sup>th<\/sup>-grade band, but if you're looking for <a href='https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jefffriedl'>the Jeff Friedl who plays drums\nfor ASHES dIVIDE<\/a>, that's not me.<\/p>\n\n<p>What is me is...<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"h1\">Random data points about Jeffrey Friedl<\/div>\n\n<ul id=\"misc\">\n  <li><span class='nobr'>I currently<\/span> live in Kyoto, Japan.<\/li>\n  <li>Son Anthony born October, 2002.<\/li>\n  <li>Have studied the following languages in school: English, Spanish, German, French.<\/li>\n  <li>Can actually speak the following languages: English, Japanese.<\/li>\n  <li>Languages <span class='nobr'>I apparently<\/span> wasted <span class='nobr'>a lot<\/span> of time on for nothing: Spanish, German, French.<\/li>\n  <li>Born in San Diego, California.<\/li>\n  <li>Raised in Rootstown, Ohio.<\/li>\n  <li>Bachelor of Science in Math \/ Applied Computer Science: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.kent.edu\/department\/index.html\">Kent<\/a>, 1987.<\/li>\n  <li>Master of Science in Computer Science: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.unh.edu\/\">University of New Hampshire<\/a>, 1988.<\/li>\n  <li>Have been in <span class='nobr'>a couple<\/span> of <b>big<\/b> earthquakes (Loma Prieta '89,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ce.washington.edu\/~liquefaction\/selectpiclique\/kobe95\/expressway.jpg\">Kobe<\/a> '95).<\/li>\n   <li><span class='nobr'>Spent 2.5<\/span> painful years writing the first edition of <b><a href=\"\/\">Mastering Regular Expressions<\/a><\/b> (O'Reilly Media, 1997).<\/li>\n   <li><span class='nobr'>Spent 2<\/span> more painful years writing the second edition (O'Reilly Media, 2002).<\/li>\n   <li>Spent only 9 months updating for the third edition (O'Reilly Media, 2006).<\/li>\n   <li>Catholic.<\/li>\n   <li>Have programmed in C since 1981, Perl since 1990. Don't know C++.<\/li>\n   <li>Have used <b>jfriedl<\/b>@<b>yahoo.com<\/b> as an email address since before there was Yahoo! Mail. Still use it.<\/li>\n<!--   <li>Reads <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\/public\/jfriedl\">these blogs<\/a> regularly.<\/li> -->\n   <li>Wrote <a href='\/blog\/toc'>these blog posts<\/a>.<\/li>\n   <li>Took <a href='\/blog\/photostream\/main.html#random'>these pictures<\/a>, and <a href='\/blog\/photos-latest'>these, too<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I lurk on\n    <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+JeffreyFriedl\/posts'>Google Plus<\/a>\n    and\n    <a href='https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jeffrey.friedl'>Facebook<\/a>.\n    <\/li>\n <\/ul>\n\n<div class=\"h1\">Employment<\/div>\n<ul id=\"emp\">\n\n<li><a href='http:\/\/adobe.com\/'>Adobe Systems, Inc<\/a> \u3010\u30a2\u30c9\u30d3 \u30b7\u30b9\u30c6\u30e0\u30ba\u3011 <small>(10\/2007 &mdash; 8\/2008, and again 12\/2009 &mdash; 5\/2010)<\/small>\n     <br\/>I consulted on issues related to <a href='http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/photoshoplightroom\/'>Lightroom<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n<li><a href='http:\/\/peakwebconsulting.com\/'>Peak Web Consulting<\/a> <small>(2007 &mdash; 2008)<\/small>\n     <br\/>I worked on back-end infrastructure tools for top-tier bandwidth\n     users (big Big players on the Internet, whose names I'm not allowed to mention).<\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo!<\/a>\n\u3010\u30e4\u30d5\u30fc\uff08\u30a2\u30e1\u30ea\u30ab\u306e<span class='nobr'>\u672c\u793e\uff09\u3011<\/span>\n<br\/>\n<small>Sunnyvale, CA, USA (1997 - 2005)<\/small>\n\n<br\/>Architecting and engineering on the <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/\">Y! Finance<\/a> site, using mostly\nPerl\/MySQL to fold, spindle, and hopefully not mutilate reams of financial data. <span class='nobr'>I was employee<\/span> #192.\nWhen <span class='nobr'>I left<\/span> <small><b>)-:<\/b><\/small> <span class='nobr'>I was<\/span> the 30<sup>th<\/sup> most senior (by time, certainly not influence) employee.<\/li>\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omron.co.jp\/\">Omron Tateishi Denki<\/a>\n\u3010\u30aa\u30e0\u30ed\u30f3<span class='nobr'>\u7acb\u77f3\u96fb\u6a5f\u3011<\/span>\n<br\/>\n<small>Nagaokakyou, Japan (1989-1997)<\/small>\n\n<br\/>Mostly kernel work on\u3000a four-processor symmetric shared memory system that Omron was developing.\nWhile at Omron, spent about three years as a &#8220;visiting\nscientist&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/\">Carnegie Mellon\nUniversity<\/a> (and was mostly unimpressive to the superbly smart people there).<\/li>\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/neoucom.edu\/\">Northeastern Ohio Universities College of\nMedicine (NEOUCOM)<\/a>\n<br\/>\n<small>Rootstown, Ohio (1981 - 1986)<\/small>\n<br\/>\nWorked with a first-run IBM-PC with DOS 1.0. (Unfortunately, Microsoft has not improved on their software much since then). Washed <span class='nobr'>a lot<\/span> of lab\nequipment. <span class='nobr'>Did a lot<\/span> of programming, including some really advanced <a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flow_cytometer'>flow cytometer<\/a>\ncontrol software in <a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Forth_(programming_language)'>FORTH<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<div class=\"h1\"><a name='dev'>Personal: Lightroom Development and Camera-Geek Thing<\/a><\/div>\n<div style='margin-left:2.5em'>\n<p>I enjoy researching a subject of personal interest, and then, because <span class='nobr'>I\noccasionally<\/span> stumble across an ability to write well, sharing the results.\nExamples include my long writeup on <a\nhref='\/blog\/photo-tech\/color-spaces-page1\/'>digital image\ncolor spaces<\/a>, the <a\nhref='\/blog\/photo-tech\/focus-chart\/'>auto-focus test\nchart<\/a> that <span class='nobr'>I developed,<\/span> and <span class='nobr'>a detailed<\/span>\n<a href='\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/jpeg-quality'>Analysis of Lightroom JPEG Export Quality Settings<\/a>.\n(See all in my <a\nhref='\/blog\/photo-tech\/focus-chart\/'>list of geeky\nphoto-tech posts<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n<p>I also seem to have become the main provider of plugins for Adobe\nLightroom, such as my plugins that allow direct export to Zenfolio, Flickr,\nSmugMug, PicasaWeb, Facebook, and more: see my <a\nhref='\/blog\/lightroom-goodies'>Lightroom Goodies<\/a> page\nfor current details. <span class='nobr'>I develop<\/span> these on my own time, as <span class='nobr'>a hobby,<\/span> which is\nperhaps <span class='nobr'>a bit<\/span> odd because <span class='nobr'>I don't<\/span> actually use most of them in my own photo\nworkflow. <span class='nobr'>In case it<\/span>'s of interest, I've written up <span class='nobr'>a story<\/span> on how <span class='nobr'>I fell<\/span>\ninto this line of handiwork: &#8220;<a\nhref='\/blog\/2010-02-10\/1452' class='pt'>Road to Now: My\nLong Path To Lightroom Plugin Development<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"h1\"><a name='contact'>Contact<\/a><\/div>\n<div style='margin-left:2.5em'>\n\n<p>For comments specific to a blog post, feel free to leave <span class='nobr'>a comment<\/span> on\nthe post. Otherwise, feel free to <a href='mailto:jfriedl@yahoo.com'>send\nemail<\/a>. (Plugin logs should be sent <a href='\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/faq#log'>as per this FAQ<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I played drums in 5th-grade band, but if you're looking for the Jeff Friedl who plays drums for ASHES dIVIDE, that's not me.<\/p> <p>What is me is...<\/p> I currently live in Kyoto, Japan. Son Anthony born October, 2002. Have studied the following languages in school: English, Spanish, German, French. Can actually speak the following languages: English, Japanese. Languages I apparently wasted a lot of time on for nothing: Spanish, German, French. Born in San Diego, California. Raised in Rootstown, Ohio. Bachelor of Science in Math \/ Applied Computer Science: Kent, 1987. 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