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    <author>
      <name>brandon</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:opensoul.org,2007-09-07:363:10</id>
    <published>2007-03-16T01:09:00Z</published>
    <updated>2007-09-07T14:05:48Z</updated>
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<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Good question. I like to write code and talk about it here.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I joined &lt;a href=&quot;http://collectiveidea.com&quot;&gt;Collective Idea&lt;/a&gt; in 2006 as a refugee from “Enterprise” Java development.  I  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool-Aid#.22Drinking_the_Kool-Aid.22&quot;&gt;drank the Ruby kool-aid&lt;/a&gt; &lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#koolaid&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; and now spend most of my time writing awesome code in Ruby and &lt;a href=&quot;http://rubyonrails.org&quot;&gt;Rails&lt;/a&gt;, some of which I have &lt;a href=&quot;/projects&quot;&gt;released as open source&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;In my free time, you&#8217;ll find me with headphones in my ears, hacking on some random piece of code that I&#8217;m excited about&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#freetime&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, playing with Linux, or, to relieve the screen burn, playing tennis with my wife.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;h3&gt;Talk to me&lt;/h3&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Feel free to contact me via the email address to the right or IM: &lt;a&gt;Jabber&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;aim:bkeeps82&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;AIM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;MSN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;h3&gt;Talk to me in private&lt;/h3&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I&#8217;m not paranoid, I just don&#8217;t like people watching me pee, digging through my garbage, or reading my email. Grab &lt;a href=&quot;http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&amp;amp;search=0xC0E3268C&quot;&gt;my &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GPG&lt;/span&gt; key&lt;/a&gt; and send me an email (unless you like people watching you pee). Here are &lt;a href=&quot;http://opensoul.org/2006/7/18/using-gpg-on-os-x&quot;&gt;directions for setting up Apple Mail to send and receive encrypted email&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;ol class=&quot;footnotes&quot;&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Ruby has been known to elicit similar symptoms to drug addiction.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;When you love what you do, the line between work and play is rather blurry.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;</content>  </entry>
  <entry xml:base="http://opensoul.org/">
    <author>
      <name>brandon</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:opensoul.org,2007-04-12:279:9</id>
    <published>2007-03-16T01:09:00Z</published>
    <updated>2007-04-12T22:01:37Z</updated>
    <link href="http://opensoul.org/2007/3/16/about" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
    <title>Who is this bloke?</title>
<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I joined Collective Idea in 2006 as a refugee from “Enterprise” Java development.  Since &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool-Aid#.22Drinking_the_Kool-Aid.22&quot;&gt;drinking the Ruby kool-aid&lt;/a&gt; &lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#koolaid&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, I have become a &lt;a href=&quot;http://opensoul.org/&quot; title=&quot;Brandon's Blog&quot;&gt;widely-read blogger&lt;/a&gt; (by my own standards) and valuable member of the community while contributing to &lt;a href=&quot;/projects&quot;&gt;several open source projects&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;In my free time, you&#8217;ll find me with headphones in his ears, hacking on some random piece of code that I&#8217;m excited about&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#freetime&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, playing with Linux, or, to relieve the screen burn, playing tennis with his wife.&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;ol class=&quot;footnotes&quot;&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Ruby has been known to elicit similar symptoms to drug addiction.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;When you love what you do, the line between work and play is rather blurry.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

	&lt;h3&gt;Find me on the web&lt;/h3&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;&lt;a&gt;Jabber&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;aim:bkeeps82&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;AIM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;MSN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/bkeepers&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/bkeepers&quot;&gt;del.icio.us&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://flickr.com/photos/bkeepers&quot;&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.last.fm/user/bkeepers&quot;&gt;last.fm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;h3&gt;Talk to me in private&lt;/h3&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I&#8217;m not paranoid, I just don&#8217;t like people watching me pee, digging through my garbage, or reading my email.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&amp;amp;search=0xC0E3268C&quot;&gt;my &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GPG&lt;/span&gt; key&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>  </entry>
  <entry xml:base="http://opensoul.org/">
    <author>
      <name>brandon</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:opensoul.org,2007-04-12:278:8</id>
    <published>2007-03-16T01:09:00Z</published>
    <updated>2007-04-12T21:57:56Z</updated>
    <link href="http://opensoul.org/2007/3/16/about" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
    <title>Who is this bloke?</title>
<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I joined Collective Idea in 2006 as a refugee from “Enterprise” Java development.  Since &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool-Aid#.22Drinking_the_Kool-Aid.22&quot;&gt;drinking the Ruby kool-aid&lt;/a&gt; &lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#koolaid&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, I have become a &lt;a href=&quot;http://opensoul.org/&quot; title=&quot;Brandon's Blog&quot;&gt;widely-read blogger&lt;/a&gt; (by my own standards) and valuable member of the community while contributing to &lt;a href=&quot;/projects&quot;&gt;several open source projects&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;In my free time, you&#8217;ll find me with headphones in his ears, hacking on some random piece of code that I&#8217;m excited about&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#freetime&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, playing with Linux, or, to relieve the screen burn, playing tennis with his wife.&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;ol class=&quot;footnotes&quot;&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Ruby has been known to elicit similar symptoms to drug addiction.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;When you love what you do, the line between work and play is rather blurry.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

	&lt;h3&gt;Find me on the web&lt;/h3&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;&lt;a&gt;Jabber&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;aim:bkeeps82&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;AIM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;MSN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/bkeepers&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/bkeepers&quot;&gt;del.icio.us&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://flickr.com/photos/bkeepers&quot;&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.last.fm/user/bkeepers&quot;&gt;last.fm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;h3&gt;Talk to me in private&lt;/h3&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I&#8217;m not paranoid, I just don&#8217;t like people watching me while I pee (or send email).&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&amp;amp;search=0xC0E3268C&quot;&gt;my &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;GPG&lt;/span&gt; key&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>  </entry>
  <entry xml:base="http://opensoul.org/">
    <author>
      <name>brandon</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:opensoul.org,2007-04-12:277:7</id>
    <published>2007-03-16T01:09:00Z</published>
    <updated>2007-04-12T21:30:57Z</updated>
    <link href="http://opensoul.org/2007/3/16/about" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
    <title>Who is this bloke?</title>
<content type="html">&lt;h3&gt;Find me on the web&lt;/h3&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;&lt;a&gt;Jabber&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;aim:bkeeps82&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;AIM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;MSN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/bkeepers&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/bkeepers&quot;&gt;del.icio.us&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://flickr.com/photos/bkeepers&quot;&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.last.fm/user/bkeepers&quot;&gt;last.fm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;h3&gt;Talk to me in private&lt;/h3&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&#38;search=0xC0E3268C&lt;/p&gt;</content>  </entry>
  <entry xml:base="http://opensoul.org/">
    <author>
      <name>brandon</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:opensoul.org,2007-04-12:276:6</id>
    <published>2007-03-16T01:09:00Z</published>
    <updated>2007-04-12T21:20:52Z</updated>
    <link href="http://opensoul.org/2007/3/16/about" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
    <title>Find me on the web...</title>
<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a&gt;Jabber&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;aim:bkeeps82&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;AIM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;MSN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/bkeepers&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/bkeepers&quot;&gt;del.icio.us&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://flickr.com/photos/bkeepers&quot;&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.last.fm/user/bkeepers&quot;&gt;last.fm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>  </entry>
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