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     Good news - if you were looking for joking.net, you found it. The bad news of course is that you were probably looking for jokes, not for me, or just wondering what might live at such an obvious domain name.

     Joking.net has been around a long time. The derivation is:

Joseph King = Joe King
Joe King = "joking"
"joking" = "joking.net"

     It's one of those things that people either get right away, or never get at all. Those that get it right away lead off with "Hey, you must be joking!" (Thinking of course they were the first to come up with it.) That got old around the 3rd grade. Not long after however, I embraced the horror, and decided that there is some coolness to having a name that people never forget. That eventually led to this domain name, my license plate, etc.

     I have placed all my business contact information here because while people forget my address, my phone number, even my e-mail, they seldom forget "joking". Over the years I've used this domain name as an exercise in narcissism, a place to host my resume, and now a site that covers the professional side of my life. It does still include my resume, but also the tools of my trade, and also provides me a place to direct people when I network. 

     Some of the cool things I have been working on lately (mostly involving bidtopia.com) have been described in this Microsoft whitepaper, this blog, and this MSDN Channel 9 video. Please feel free to take a look if you're interested in what I do or how I do it.

Recent news about Bidtopia (through parent company Warehouse 86)can also be seen here, here, and here.