Hi. Thanks for being interested enough in my tweets to click through. 

I'm Marnie Webb.  I blog at ext337.org. I struggle, aloud, with how people can connect themselves, their issues, their efforts and their data to make something happen. I should be clear here, that when I say make something happen, I mean something in the progressive-liberal-Barbara Boxer-doesn't-go-far-enough kind of way.  Not in the NRA kind of way.  Anyway, if you're interested in the professional resume you can see it on LinkedIn.

But you?  I like you. So I'm going to tell you the real story.  Here's a timeline:

• 1965:  Born in Long Beach, CA in a hospital that happened to be in the process of being demolished when I saw it ten years later.
• 1976: Am proud to be a Patriot at Howard Pence Elementary School.  Make many, many red, white and blue potholders. 
• 1977: Say the 4-H pledge many times. Take it very, very seriously. 
• 1983: Start the college thing. 
• 1992: Realize that I should dump the college thing. 
• 1993: Fall in love with Mosaic while, of all things, working at a college
• 1997: Move to a garage in Malibu, CA and spend three years writing short stories and playing a lot of tennis.  Seriously. A lot.
• 2000: Move to San Francisco Bay Area because it was easy. Get a job because "that's always a good way to meet people."
• 2002: Decide the Manhattan will be my drink of choice. Makers and up.
• 2004: Fall surprisingly and helplessly in love a little person I like to call "the Spawn."
• 2004: Fall surprisingly and helplessly in love with a little project I like to call "NetSquared."
• 2007:  Keep the Manhattan but switch to Buffalo Trace.
• 2008: That job I got to meet people? Still in it.

I also collect things here and here.

Give me a shout out, @webb, to say hi.

(ps -- if you are new to twitter you might enjoy these two bits I wrote:  Twitter Resource Roundup and Talk Amongst Yourselves)

(ps -- inspired by @pistachio via @kanter)

photo credit goes to: Amy Gahran