About

I’m John G. Norman; this is my blog and the site for my “flag of convenience” consultancy, 7fff LLC. I’m the Chief Software Architect at Iora Health; to learn more about what we’re doing at Iora, check out some of the articles here: http://www.iorahealth.com/Press.html, in particular, the one from the New Yorker magazine.

7fff is the hexadecimal representation of the largest number that can be represented in sixteen bits (signed two’s complement). You might know this value better as 32767 decimal.

I was a co-founder of H3.com. I am also behind the curtain at Duffy’s Cliff. I taught a Ruby and Ruby on Rails course at Harvard Extension; here’s the course site.

I have no relation whatsoever to the science fiction author John Frederick Lange, Jr., who goes by the pen name John Norman. I am also not the same person as the John Norman who is the head of e-learning at Cambridge in the UK. Yet I am (still) that same John Norman who studied English Literature at Harvard and later taught at Ohio State, where I was, towards the end, Director of the Computers in Composition and Literature program. More recently I’ve taught media studies at the New School in New York City, and engineering at Harvard Extension and at the University of Minnesota.

If you want to know more, check out my LinkedIn profile. You can reach me at john at 7fff dot com. If you want to pop up in my deluge of e-mail, make the subject “I red yer blogge.”

I am currently not seeking employment or consulting, but I love to hear people talk about their awesome technology, so seek me out if you’re doing anything mind-blowing. I do occasionally help my friends as a technical advisor to their startups.