Family
Here is a photo of my immediate family, my wife Margaret and sons Darren and Timothy. We were all born in England and moved to California in 1987. This group photo was taken at Tempest in Lelant, near St.Ives, Cornwall during our vacation in England, June 1996.
Christmas 2004 and here is the American branch of the Madams' family.
I am collecting the Madams Family Tree and my brother-in-law Bill is collecting his, the Thomas Family Tree. If you can add to these, or have corrections, please let me know.
Friends
Kay and Trevor Wilkins visiting San Francisco Oct 2004.
Francis and Moya, Matthew and Charles Gillam visiting San Francisco Aug 2002. (www.gillam.net)
Fellow Citabria owners: Dave and Kathleen Cunningham, Mike and Karen, Jim and Claire
Denise Dohogne our local real estate expert.
Master aviator and sailor: Gerry and Judy Greth
Bay Area Gliding: Jim and Connie Indrebo at Crazy Creek Gliders
Work
I have spent many years in computer systems development, working for a number of companies large and small, in the UK and the USA. I have worked for public companies and founded a number of start-ups as well. My interests and skills are in the low level system hardware and software and I have a proven track record in delivering systems with ultra-high scalability, ultra-high performance, high integrity and security, high reliability and availability. Systems that found their way into Financial Service Enterprises or Internet and Telecommunication projects such as Zadu (annotate any web page in the universe) or Video on Demand using nCUBE supercomputers. I have a lot of experience in designing and building modern web-based applications using J2EE and XML and all of their related tools and services. Although my role is often CTO or Chief Architect my skills also include building the team of people who develop, maintain and support these enterprise level systems.
Rather then simply give you conventional resume to read, take a look at some of the thoughts and ideas I have found useful and valuable to live by and to work by.
First some definitions: * Effort * Attitude * Success * Team *
Management is getting things done by other people - here are the rules for getting things done:
* Persistence
* Teamwork
* A Customer
* Quality
* Rule#1
* Don't Quit
* Excellence
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And here are 12 points to live by (I don't know who wrote these, if you do, please let me know). They do provide a great snapshot of what I have found works.
On a less serious note, as I think about my personal evolution from a student to executive, the famous Evolution of a Programmer always makes me smile, I hope it does for you too.
Of course, you can learn a lot from Noah's Ark.
Finally, you can find my conventional resume here.
Play
Bikes
Boats
Cars
M*A*S*H
Planes
RV
Do you like card tricks? I do. Here is an on-line card trick.
Home
Real space: Universe.Solar System.Earth.USA.California.Benicia.456 East E Street 94510
Roots
Pixies, slipping, fitting, stealing;
Elf-bells, ringing, swinging, peeling;
Mermaids, giants, tin-mine fairies,
Piskies, whiskies, maids-in-dairies;
Moonlight in a fairy ring;
Breezes in a frenzied fling;
Bronze, bare mountains, rolling high;
Druids' heaps and seagulls' cry;
Magic-made, when time began,
The Cornish coast, enchanted land.
Ann Durell.
Politics
Project Censored 2005 Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2003-2004.
WantToKnow.info Concise, reliable introduction to vital information being hidden from public view.
If you have limited time, go straight to any of the revealing two-page summaries of major cover-ups directly below. They will open your eyes!
9/11 two-page summary. Media two-page summary.
FactCheck.org
A nonpartisan, nonprofit, voter advocate to reduce the deception and confusion in U.S. politics.
From the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
Libertarian Party
Don't forget to take the world's smallest politcal quiz. Are you surprised by the answer?
You'll find a more detailed quiz at PoliticalCompass.Org (seems to be a problem with the domain)
This chart show why Nader puts Bush and Kerry in the same corporation-funded camp.
20 Reasons to vote for Ralph Nader
Voting without auditing. (Are we insane?) Check out BlackBoxVoting.org Consumer Protection for elections.
Bush resume
PNAC - The arrogant view that the new century is 'american'
Who's who in PNAC from the Wikipedia
PNAC.info - Exposing PNAC by Lance Brown candidate for President 2008
Electoral-Vote.com
Andy Tannebaum's voter maps and data.
Check out the county maps and for more info read the Votemaster-FAQ
Links
Battery University - all you need to know about batteries
Crazy Creek Gliders - The best soaring in the Bay Area
Crazy Creek Gliders Yahoo Group - chat about it
DNS Stuff - check the health of your DNS
Eclipse data - Astronomical events
Index Dot Html - the Advanced HTML reference
Meteor Observing Calendar - more Astronomy
Price Grabber
Towel Day May 25th
Validation tools at W3C
Wikipedia
Peter Madams<peter@madams.com>
May 21st 2004