This blog is all about Mark Patterson. All you have to do is Google “Mark Patterson” to see about a billion Mark Pattersons out there. Rest assured, you have reached the real Mark Patterson. All the others are CIA plants designed as red herrings to lead you astray. Do not be fooled!

Seriously, this site is my home site for all things me. I am a technologist by profession — Information Technology, computer science, and consulting. Personally, I am an avid reader, lover of all sorts of music, outdoorsman, and horse man. I also love really good cigars. I live with my lovely family on the West Coast of the US. I spent a good chunk of my early life on the East Coast – Pennsylvania and New Jersey – but moved to California in my teens and except for a short stint in 1990 never left the West.