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Larry Ketchersid is an entrepreneurial technologist, a runner, developer and a writer. His first novel,Dusk Before the Dawn was a Finalist for the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards in 2006. His latest novel, Software by the Kilo, is available in print and eBook (as is the first). He has also written a memoir book of stories for my mother and father called Voices in my Head.

His latest project is titled Re-reading Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, and is currently available as a Kindle eBook.

He has run several technology startups, some wildly successful, others not worth mentioning. He is currently the CEO of Media Sourcery, Inc., a security and workflow software and services company. He has degrees in Computer Science, Mathemat ...more

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Svalbard – Close to the Top of the World

After a day and a half in Copenhagen, we flew by way of Oslo, Norway to Longyearbyen, on the archipelago of Svalbard. Like us, you may be asking “Where the heck is Svalbard?”. To...

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Perhaps the Stars

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The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence

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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40

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