Who do you think you are?
Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the difference between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.
I'm Norman Walsh. If you're browsing the web with graphics enabled, that's me over there on the right, or at least it looks vaguely like me. (6 Jun 2003, even more vaguely since I switched to a more artistic depiction.)
The following links say a little bit more about me...
- Mark Logic Corporation
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My day job. I'm a Principal Technologist in the Media group. That means I build stuff for prospects and clients, speak at industry events, work on web standards, and generally help out where ever I can.
- O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
Here's a bio that is sometimes used to describe me:
Norman Walsh is a Principal Technologist in the Media group at Mark Logic Corporation where he assists in the design and deployment of advanced content applications. Norm is also an active participant in a number of standards efforts worldwide: he is chair of the XML Processing Model Working Group at the W3C where he is also co-chair of the XML Core Working Group. At OASIS, he is chair of the DocBook Technical Committee.
Before joining Mark Logic, he participated in XML-related projects and standards efforts at Sun Microsystems. With more than a decade of industry experience, Mr. Walsh is well known for his work on DocBook and a wide range of open source projets. He is the principle author of DocBook: The Definitive Guide, published by O'Reilly & Associates.
![[I Want to Believe poster with flying saucer]](images/xfiles-iwantobelieve.jpg)
More informally, I'm a skeptic, but I was also a big fan of the X-Files. Yes, I want to believe. But I don't. Like most Americans, I probably watch too much television. Going back a few years, I was a
devoted follower of Star Trek, Dr. Who, and The Prisoner. No, I don't read enough. Technical and science stuff, mostly, and Dilbert (and Foxtrot).
I'm disorganized by nature ("hopeless" is what Deb usually says), but I've become completely devoted to my PDA (it was a Palm, then a Sidekick, today it's an iPhone). It seems to keep me organized. More or less. If nothing else, I can carry interactive fiction around with me, which is just way too cool.
Below are some of my interests away from the computer. Really, I do stop sometimes. Honest!
If you got all the way down to here, you might even be interested in my friend of a friend page.
