One nice thing that I have discovered about Los Angeles is the enthusiasm with which people dress.
I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree.
The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

