Hello geeks of Boston! After speaking with Shimon, he agreed to let me help out around here, to keep you informed of the geekery going on in the area.

So allow me to briefly introduce myself. My name is Josh Nichols, but I’ve found myself more commonly known as Pickles. I’ve been in Boston just over two years. I’m currently working for the Broad Institute, doing Java web development type stuff for the Chemical Biology department. In my spare time, I’m a user and developer of Gentoo Linux, having worked on Java, Ruby, and Xfce support. And most recently, I’ve become a Rails convert, and wrote my own blog (it’s one of those rite of passage type of things), Technical Pickles.

So that’s all for now, and I look forward to keeping everyone up to date on the latest events!