A Message From Captain Black Hat!
Arrgh! If ye be wantin' a real blog, best be gettin' yerself to this here link, which frankly goes to this page. If ye be attemptin' to reckon the wisdom of this site awash in pink, then ye be a scurvy dog of H-E-double-hocky-sticks if ye don't stab that link! Me mother may have birthed a bastard and a pirate, be she didn' raise a potty mouth!
Arrgh, me hearty! Arrgh, me pancreas! Best be gettin' meself to a doctor. This time of the non-witch variety! Yarrgh!
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Matthew Oliphant is a part-time superhero, swashbuckler, and adventurer extraordinaire. He also rarely optimises his personal sites for any Micro$oft product. He is so l33t for using an $ for an S.
He also works as a Senior Designer/Usabilitier on mathworks.com (as of July 2006 anyway). Before that he spent 7 years designing web applications for State Farm. State Farm you ask? Strangely enough it is one of the biggest companies in the world; bigger than Microsoft, bigger than all those fancy-pants "Web 2.0" companies that pop up like a gaggle of unfortunately chosen similes.
Matthew has also been (in no particular order) apparently quoteable, a Senior Journeyman Barista, Senior Journeyman Roaster, magazine editor, actor, director, tried to sell cars *shudder*, founder of Business Logs (a company focused on all things related to businesses blogging), minor helper in the founding of 9rules, pimper of avalonstar.com t-shirts, student of world languages (but only of phrases that are rude), father of a most excellent daughter named Sagan Aurora Kilauea Oliphant, husband of an also most excellent woman named Claire.
He writes a lot about design and usability, but also about many, many other things. That link above in the pirate section goes to a personal blog and it changes with the person. That person being Matthew Oliphant. Just reminding you in case your ADD kicked in for a sec there.
Matthew lives in Framingham, MA (the green pin) and commutes a whopping 3.8 miles (one way) to work in Natick, MA (the red pin). Roundtrip he commutes 12 miles because Route 9 is dumb.
That red pin, the aforementioned The MathWorks, happens to be hiring. Yes, I realise this is an internal page, but I get the feeling you are looking for a new challenge. Right now, I highly recommend the Web Community Business Analyst position. Always tell them Matthew Oliphant sent you. Seriously. He has a goal to buy a new BMW motorcycle with employee referral bonuses.
Since you made it this far down the page, why not indulge yourself a bit more by reading some of the more interesting, linked to, or make-Matthew-seem-handsome writings.
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Matthew Oliphant. You know, the Matthew Oliphant. C'mon people work with me.
