Welcome to the Department of Shameless Self-Promotion here at ConGlomCo Industries. Now that you're here, stay a while and look around, won't you? Forget everything you've heard—Get to know the Bill Krauss we know: Creative Troubleshooter, Responsible Citizen.

If there's one thing we here at ConGlomCo have tried to impress upon Bill, it's the value of long-term focus. Fortunately, he's paid no attention. Bill has worn many hats since coming to ConGlomCo. He's also had many jobs: Marketing Director, Web and Graphic Designer, Record Producer and Audio Engineer, Desktop Publisher, Small-Computer Troubleshooter, Photographer and Actor, to name a few. (Most, actually.) These days, he's helping make a bunch of different databases talk to each other for Technicolor Content Services (which is owned by Thomson).

(He'll also go on about the hat thing at great length, if you'll let him.)

So now that you're here, poke around and get to know Bill. And thanks for letting us refer to him in the third person. It really strokes his ego.

Questions, comments, kudos and brickbats? Email: krauss@conglomco.net.

You may now return to your lives, which are already in progress.