Chocolate Last Modified 12/31/2006. When I started my own website in 1995 to share some of my software, I decided to branch off from the usual freeware and shareware. I made mine chocolateware. I suggested that anybody who used my software send me chocolate. My email signature was "Will Work for Chocolate". Before I knew it, people were actually sending me chocolate! After several years of getting chocolate in the mail (sometimes melted, depending on the season), I can tell you chocolate is not the ideal exchange. I do have other interests besides chocolate and programming. I play the piano. One of my favorite composers is George Gershwin, though I really like the true classics, too, especially Chopin. I like to downhill ski at Killington, Vermont if you'd rather send a ski pass. I like to work out at the High Point Mountain Aikikai and BodyKi Center - awesome place. Ask me about them. I like to read. I've been reading a lot of Hemingway, lately. I like fine wine, tasty hot sauces with amusing labels and beef jerky. If you'd rather send any of these to show your appreciation for the site, the free software or some free advice, that would be fine. A heartfelt thank you note is as much treasured as anything else. [This picture was taken November 26, 2006. I became a mother on July 3, 2006. Thanks to all my wonderful clients, I can still work from home while I take care of my darling son.)] In the spirit of tradition, my chocolate contributors are: The Woodstock Film Festival - Has given me chocolates on a couple delicious ocassions. Sing-Si - Champagne truffles from Switzerland! A taste of heaven. Lewis Brooks of DDB gave me a delightful assorted box of chocolate from the Manhattan Fruit Company. Lynn Naso of The Naso Group gave me some delicious fudge from the Tinker Street Shop in Woodstock. Dottie Goldsmith of Kaz, Incorporated gave me a delicious and colorful holiday box of Godiva. Jeanine Cowen of Massachusetts sent me "Angel Chips" - a combination of chocolate, caramel, potato chips and peanuts so you can satisfy both the sugar and salt cravings in the same bite. Ernie Kirschner of Hardware and Software Services gave me some Vermont chocolate in extra appreciation for the Filemaker database that I designed to help him manage his business. William Greenwood of Greenwood Designs in Woodstock, New York gave me a delicious box of local Woodstock truffles for the website I designed for him. Peter Lurie, a rising opera star, recently sent me German Chocolate for my assistance with exporting address from Emailer to Eudora. My friend Henri-Pierre in Belgium was one of my first ever chocolate contributors with a delicious box of Belgium chocolates! Nirvana Chocolates fulfilled my fantasy when they wrote me and asked me to visit their site and pick out what I wanted. Their chocolates are heavenly! Better than Godiva, even! And their website is quite nice, too. Thanks, Nirvana! Juri Jensen from Denmark contributed a delicious box of Apricot Brandy chocolates - marzipan with dark chocolate! MMM MMM! Good taste, Juri! Mike from Gloucester, England - Thanks so much for the great box of Godiva! Andrew the Emailman - Thanks for the delicious Ghirardelli and Swiss Chocolate! Tony from New York Link, a delicious box of Godiva! Juan Montoya of Marakon in Stamford - M&M's - Just when I needed them most. His colleage Chris Capelle has also been on hand at Marakon with those good old fashioned blue mint hard candies when I lost my voice and still had to make an office call. It wasn't chocolate, but worked even better under the circumstances. Mike Lundeby of Creative Resource Center in Eden Prairie, Minnesota - delicious box of Godiva. Mike is the head of a very innovative web development center that handles, among other things, the delicious Pillsbury site! I worked for him locally while I was in Minnesota, and he has not forgotten me, even though I've moved to the East Coast. Robert Brook of Time Magazine - splendid Toblerone! The kind you can't buy in the U.S.! David Doda - a great little box of Godiva. Qlarity Software Fabulous box of Godiva chocolates! Phil Caulkins, Editor In Chief, Inside FileMaker Pro. Deborah Shadovitz of Los Angeles, California. Deborah is an efficiency expert - specializing in Productivity Utilities for the Mac platform. She is knowledgeable in both software and hardware. The Chocolate Dude! - Whose website has unfortunately, mysteriously disappeared. Brad Schrick, of Palo Alto, California. Scott Lawton, owner of PreFab Software Jon Weiderspan of ComVista Steve Noreyko, a great photographer from Star News in Indianapolis. Cal Simone, owner of Main Event Software. A&a Printing of Palo Alto, California Walter Ian Kaye, a great contributor to many technical lists from Mountain View, California. Scottish Higher Education Funding Council Chuck Shotton, author of WebStar - the first MacIntosh web server. Mark Kriegsman, head of Clearway Technologies Back to the Top