Back in April I mentioned that Norri Kageki interviewed me for a column on Silicon Valley engineers who use weblogs for personal and business purposes. The June issue of IT Professionals containing this column came out about a month ago, but I have been slow about getting the text translated by a friend and then scanning in the relevant bits. Thanks to Norri for sending me a copy of the magazine and thanks to my friend Atsushi for the translation!
The column that Norri writes for IT Professionals covers interesting trends in the USA. Below is the table of contents entry for this month’s column. I’m not the person pictured in the column.
My name as written in Japanese is highlighted in the passage to the right. Atsushi’s translation (with a few minor edits by me) of this section of the column is below.
A chief architect Robert Stewart (age 38) working for one of the major telecom companies, Avaya, Inc., talked about using a blog as a project management tool. He hopes that “we can easily realize a higher quality of project management by using blogs. Also one of the advantages is that engineers at our overseas business partners and new members of our development team can grasp the entire project history very quickly by reading the blog.”
I believe some of your enterprises infringe on numerous patents I have registered at the U.S Patent Office. My attorney is investigating the matter. If my patents have been violated, I will seek monetary renumeration, plus punitive damages.
Good day, sir.
Diane Waymore
Research Engineer
Alaska Communications, LLP
cc: Oscar, Petterson and Halbin, Esq.
Interesting comment. Hmmm, your IP address identifies you as an ADSL user on the PacBell network. The only Alaska Communications I can find is Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc., a telecom provider based out of Anchorage. You may want to speak with them about the the very similar corporation name. There are no patents listed at uspto.gov for an inventor with the last name Waymore. Your law firm doesn’t appear to exist. Oscar Petterson is a jazz musician. You post a lot on newsgroups about guitars and amps. You play jazz music. You showed up at my blog homepage, went directly to this post, submitted a comment, and then left. By the way, I don’t have any enterprises. And, finally, you may want to learn how to spell remuneration before commenting on other sites.