Tim Converse Personal page	What This Is An exercise in narcissism	Our PHP Book
	Jobs (reverse chronological order) engineering manager, engineer, tech book author, entrepreneur (aka contractor), lecturer, grad student, computer lab tutor, bbq grill cook, dishwasher, security guard, paperboy, lawn care specialist	Contact Info Email: tim underscore converse at yodelingexclamation dot com. YM: tim underscore converse	Job Openings in My Group A Perl/PHP/MySQL hacker and a senior C++/algorithms dev
This Page is not the same every time		My Job Engineering Manager, Content Classification Yahoo! Search Technology	Artistic inspirations for this page Mondrian, Hollywood Squares
Geek Interests Algorithms, chess programs, chess variants, PHP, Lisp, vector graphics, weblogs, captchas, blog comment spam	Music I Like Radiohead, Bach(Well-Tempered Clavier), De La Soul, Iggy Pop, Robert Fripp, Common, Bartok, Eminem, Elvis Costello, Eno, White Stripes	One Hundred Things about Me 1,2,3,..,100	Where I'm From Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Authors I like David Foster Wallace, Borges, Michael Frayn, Michel Houllebecq, Martin Amis, John LeCarre	Worries Super volcanoes, mega tsunamis, asteroids and comets		Professional Interests Web search, engineering management, document categorization, algorithmic detection of search engine spam, hiring