Personal HomePage for John Thomas

</HEAD> <BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <H1> Welcome to the web page for John Thomas</H1> <HR> <P>This is a simple version of my Home page for users of Web browsers other than Netscape Navigator 2.1+ or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0+. <P><!img src="emailed.gif" alt=" "->E-Mail: <A HREF="mailto:jthomas@cruzio.com">jthomas@cruzio.com</A> <BR> <HR> <H2> Professional Interests</H2> <H3> The commercial and social phenomenon of the WWW and Internet.</H3> I am currently working part time for the Web Technolgy Department at the IBM Almaden Research Center doing Java programming. <P>From February 96 to February 97, I left IBM and took a year sabbatical to relax and have fun.  During that time I spent many hours on the computer, doing Java programming just for fun!  (see my Java page to see some of the results) <P>I was actively involved in 94 and 95, increasing the use of the WWW within the <A HREF="http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/">Computer Science department</A> of the <A HREF="http://www.almaden.ibm.com/almaden/">IBM Almaden Research Center</A>. I was involved with both building informational Web pages for projects and individuals, and with Web facilities such as <A HREF="java.html">Java(tm)</A> for Web based Client/Server applications. <H3> Object Oriented programming and databases</H3> One of my previous projects at the Almaden Research Center included the <A HREF="http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/garlic">Garlic project</A> ; which is an object oriented interface to both traditional and non traditional databases. <BR> <HR> <H2> Personal Interests</H2> I live in <A HREF="http://www.cruzio.com/index.html">Santa Cruz</A> with Audrey Trautwein and her son Chris and daughter Rachel, who is attending Cal Poly. I have 2 daughters; Andrea, who lives in San Diego, and Erica, who lives in Sacramento. The latest addition to our household is <A HREF="kona.html">Kona</A>, a Retriever mix that we saved from the SPCA. <P>My favorite recreation is playing 2-person beach <A HREF="http://volleyball.org/">volleyball</A>. Checkout the up-to-date video camera shots of the <A HREF="http://sapphire.cse.ucsc.edu/SlugVideo/di-boardwalk.html">Santa Cruz Main beach volleyball courts</A> (Interesting only on sunny days, so check the <A HREF="http://www.sjmercury.com/weather/bayarea/coast.htm">weather</A> first.). <P><A HREF="http://www.cruzio.com/index.html">Santa Cruz</A> is on the border of the <A HREF="http://www.nos.noaa.gov/ocrm/srd/nmsp/nmsp_mb1.html">Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary </A>which is a great place to go <A HREF="http://www.intelenet.com/clubs/ckf/">Sea Kayaking</A>. <P>Although I prefer participating in sports, I do enjoy watching the <A HREF="http://www.armory.com/~lew/sports/football/49ers/">San Francisco 49ers</A> on TV and am looking forward to next season. <P>I also enjoy eating and sometimes even cooking. On July 28th, Almaden Research held a Chili Cook-off. Here is the <A HREF="chili.html">recipe</A> for my entry. Also I have posted my favorite holiday potluck recipe: <A HREF="cranberry.html">Jalapeno-Cranberry Relish</A>. <P>I have also included my <A HREF="jokepage.html">current favorite joke.</A> <P>The only problem with living in Santa Cruz and working in San Jose is that you have to make a long commute over the Santa Cruz mountains. That is one of the main reasons why I no longer work for IBM! One commuter has documented the bad drivers he encounters on his <A HREF="http://www.got.net/~egallant/the_road.html">Highway 17 Web page.</A> <P> <HR>John Thomas <P>E-Mail: <A HREF="mailto:jthomas@cruzio.com">jthomas@cruzio.com</A> <! ---------------------------------------------------------- -><! The above was copied from initial.html with Images removed -> <HR> <P>This page would have been more visually attractive if you were using Netscape 2.1 or higher. <P>You are visitor: <A HREF="http://www.digits.com" target="Main"><IMG SRC="http://counter.digits.com/wc/-d/4/jthomas@cruzio.com" HSPACE=4 BORDER=0 HEIGHT=20 WIDTH=40></A> <BR>Thanks for visiting. <BR>