I have been developing software since 1990. I am currently a graduate student at UW and also work as a software consultant.
As a graduate student I study robotics, control theory, machine learning, cognitive modeling and general intelligence; here is my reading list of blogs and books/articles on these topics. I have recently implemented a robot that juggles ping-pong balls.
In addition to my day jobs I've been doing open source projects (SOAP::Lite, a popular webservices toolkit for Perl, and Blooki, a not so popular wiki/weblog tool), co-authoring books (Programming Web Services with SOAP and Programming Web Services with Perl), speaking at conferences (O'Reilly Open Source Convention and O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer & Web Services Conference), and occasionally posting to my blog.