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Gee it's good to be back home again . . ..
I've just concluded my obligatory tech-industry multi-month period of unemployment. I was laid off January 25, 2002, and spent six months in a fruitless search for a new gig; in July, I started doing contract work for the company I'd left to take the job I was laid off from. Two weeks ago Friday, they asked me to come back aboard full-time.

We made it through far better than I could have imagined before it happened. [...] [ Source: Radio Rackensack]

Whatever Happened to Kai Krause

12:33:47 PM

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I've wondered whatever happened to the originator of Kai's Power Tools and one of the driving forces that brought real-time, resolution -independent image editing to the Mac so many years ago. My first memory of Krause was watching him do a (for the time) mindblowing demo at MacWorld Boston in 1993(?), where he showed a real-time image editing program on the Mac. (I forget the name of the software then, but it later became FlashPix.)

Where is Kai Krause? What is he doing?.
He is in Byteburg, Germany. (I thought that was a made up name.)

Here is the skinny by Macuarium's Ripo (in Spanish, in Googled English):

He may be working on collaborative blogging, focusing on usability for writers.

See also the Swiss NZZ Online article (Google translates Kai Krause as "dock ruffle") for more detail.

Kai is one of my design heroes, a pioneer in direct manipulation of things on screen. Knowing Kai and friends are playing with word processing, something so fundamental and universal, makes my toes tingle with delight. [ Source: a klog apart]