Gordon Irlam's page

• resume - fancy things to impress people but not really who I am

I am interested in poverty, international development, and global public health. I love playing around in my spare time with computing technology, and I am also interested in biotechnology.

I created OsnLive.com an open source open protocol distributed social network.

I work as a volunteer for the GRI Charitable Foundation, a small charitable foundation.

I used to work for Google on the Gmail web based email system. Before that I worked at Postini, Cygnus Solutions, Sun Microsystems, and Adelaide University.

Current Projects

• Poverty and public health
  • Back of the Envelope Guide to Philanthropy - quantifying charity effectiveness
  • GRI Charitable Foundation - working on global public health
  • Pro-poor political activism - RESULTS and related activities
• Economics
  • TIPS for Retirement
  • Future long term US stock market returns
• Emotional
  • Resources for Shy People

A Penny for my Thoughts?

• What should I do with my life?
  • The economics of Making a difference
  • My passions and abilities
  • 2004 Exploring my options and deciding what to do next
  • 2005 Re-exploring my options and taking a job a Google
  • 2006 Re[2]-exploring my options and leaving bio/grad school
• Poverty and public health
  • Andrea: The Pig Lady of Panchimalco - micro-credit in El Salvador.
  • Countries make me sad - (See No border network - No one is illegal!)
  • Mississippi dreaming (homeless in Mountain View)
• Infopolitics
  • Software patents threaten to devistate the software industry
  • A letter on the goofy WIPO database treaty
  • DNS is presently in danger of fragmenting or getting hijacked
• Techno
  • What Perl, Python, and Java need to learn from C
  • Why Linux fails as an application platform
  • Modern operating systems are fat and bloated