What is the saying? "The only thing that is constant is change..." Sure enough. I had been working with a young start-up called BookRenter.com with a couple of really bright young engineers but alas the business wasn't generating sufficient revenue to keep me on so... I took a contract with a company in San Francisco. It feels kind of like a reunion of sorts, the VP, Andy Felong was at Walmart.com while I was there and the Sr. Architect is Dorothy Gantenbein who I worked with some time ago at another start-up. To top it off, Trudy Reese is joining them at the end of the month.

My new client is a provider of educational tools, curriculum development, assessment and not sure what else. They are re-engineering the application and needed someone to help bootstrap the QA effort, so here I go again. It will be fun and pay the bills but I haven’t forgotten that I have my own project to get back to. Oh and to make it a bit more chaotic, I am taking another short contract with a former client in Denver to help them evolve their QA process as they grow their team in Bangalore.

Today I am boning up on Xen virtualization. I want to run multiple servers on a Dell PowerEdge SC1430. Greg Joe and I experimented with this last year and now I want to roll it out for production in BearBlu's environment.

I will let you know how it goes...