I created this blog as a place to write about things that my LiveJournal friends don’t find terribly interesting, such as:
- Operating systems (esp. Linux), and programming languages (esp. Ruby)
- Outdoorsy activities (esp. hiking, backpacking, and cycling)
- Musical interests (esp. classical piano)
- Photography
The name “bloovis” comes from a coworker at Digital Research twenty years ago, who used names like “blivot”, “blotz”, and “bloovis” for variables in test programs.
I have worked as a programmer since 1976: at Digital Research in the 80s (real-time operating systems), at Borland (C runtime libraries) and Cygnus (GDB) in the 90s, again at Borland in the early 2000s (debugger), and currently at VMware (virtual machine monitor testing). I studied computer science (back when it was called “information sciences”) at the University of California at Santa Cruz from 1972-1976.
My email address is my first name, followed by the first letter of my last name, followed by @pobox.com . I’m already getting a ton of spam, but maybe this will prevent further harvesting.
–Mark Alexander
