What is this?

Long, long ago, I had a web page. It had a searchable catalog of my library, three years worth of book reviews, a resume, notes on a number of projects I was working on or had recently worked on and my first faint efforts at an online cookbook. I wanted to be able to refer to stuff I couldn't quite remember, no matter where I was, and be able to easily refer people to certain kinds of information.

Thanks to The Internet Wayback Machine, I have most of that website back. I'm not putting it all up here. I've been able to maintain very partial versions of a cookbook, advice on relationships, travel notes and book reviews. My life offline frequently involves long absences from updating my life online. Boohoo.

The catalog was not available for a variety of reasons. Thanks to librarything you can now view my shelves from any distance. I'm rebeccaallen there.

Who the heck am I?

The Poster Formerly Known As Rebecca LeAnn Smit Crowley, now Rebecca Allen, occasional rabster, ex-software engineer and all-around bum. The web has a number of Rebecca Allens. I used to work at DECwest, Spry, and Amazon.com, and am now on the Library Board of Trustees in Brookline, NH if that narrows it down for you.

Current Status

I did NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in 2007 and finished a rough draft that I expect to edit during February.

I've put together some cheat sheets to help me survive some of the recent turmoil.

Read a version of my daily activities as walkitout on livejournal.com. That's also where I post book, movie and gear reviews.

Roland is a Member of Technical Staff at AMD. I'm not sure when we will next be visiting Seattle. My 20th high school reunion will be in September, but reviewing the plans for that, it looks so family-unfriendly that I do not plan to attend. DECwest is also doing a reunion, in October. That's tempting, but also unlikely. We will probably go to the December Solstice Party.

The book about reproduction has a Part 2. The two sections interconnect extensively, and the structure of the second part is no longer linear at all. I know it's depressing, but it's a much more accurate representation of the way parenting works.

I've had a really fun project to work on: reproduction. At livejournal, you can hear the day to day, but here you can read me foam at the mouth in more detail than you can readily imagine.

Spot a broken link or other problem? E-mail me. Have fun.

Created: January 16, 2002
Updated: January 16, 2008