If you're reading this page, then one or more of three things must be true:
There are many things I could tell you about myself, all biased, of course. So I'll let you decide which aspects you have some slight interest in reading about.
Born James R. Griffith to Richard and Donna Griffith, I had a humble upbringing. Needless to say, I found that humility didn't suit me, which is why I've reached the point in my life where I feel the need to have my own home page. Unfortunately, I've also reached the point in my life where I have the free time to write one, but that's an entirely different story.
I was raised in Pleasanton, California, a town of merely 16,000 when I arrived, but which now boasts over 60,000 residents. Pleasanton was very much an upper-middle-class city, having grown because of nearby Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (where my father worked as a nuclear health physicist). I graduated high school, and chose to attend the University of California at Berkeley, hoping to double-major in applied math and computer science (since I couldn't decide which I liked more). However, Berkeley had other plans. At that time, everyone wanted to be a CS major, so Berkeley chose to allow only 50 students enter the major every semester. Unfortunately, I was unable to breeze through college as easily as I breezed through high school (silly me), and I didn't make the grade. So I chose the next best option - majoring in applied math, which required a cluster of courses to which I wanted to apply my math. I chose CS courses, of course.
In my junior year at Cal, I joined a student group called the Experimental Computing Facility. This is an organization which gives computer access to students in exchange for those students completing an approved project and assisting other students in a nearby terminal room. This group gave me the engineering experience and connections I needed to become the software engineer that I am today.
Out of college, I was employed as a software engineer due to my XCF connections. A couple of jobs followed, in typical Silicon Valley fashion. I am a UNIX C/C++ engineer with no particular specialization - I've done stuff ranging from socket level coding to designing user interfaces.
I live in Sunnyvale, CA, and I work for a company called ETAK Inc., in Menlo Park. I can be reached at griffith@netcom.com. For moderator-related email, please use the RHF moderator's address, funny-request@clarinet.com.