Most of my long form writing has been for clients lately, hence the lack of updates here. Short snippets and such can be found in my Tumblr blog, simply because the software over there is more friendly to snippeting.
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Thin Film Manufacturing provides technology and business analysis for the integrated circuit manufacturing industry and for related fields like flat panel displays, photovoltaics, and optoelectronics.
Consulting services include industry and company analysis; business, marketing, and strategic planning; and technology analysis. Writing services include development of technical articles, white papers, and technical web site content. Contact us to discuss your needs.
Katherine Derbyshire, the founder of Thin Film Manufacturing, has a BS in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MS in materials from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published research on diamond thin films, high temperature superconductors, and archaeological bronzes.
She has been involved with the semiconductor manufacturing industry since 1994, when she joined Solid State Technology as Senior Technical Editor. She won two American Society of Business Press Editors (ASBPE) awards before departing as Chief Technical Editor in 1998. Next, she joined Semiconductor Online, where she quadrupled traffic and established the site as a leading information provider for the industry. She left Semiconductor Online in 2001 to found Thin Film Manufacturing.
Thin Film Manufacturing
PO Box 82441
Kenmore, WA 98028
Phone: +1.425.402.1608
Email: kderbyshire@thinfilmmfg.com
Courier packages may be sent to:
19422 77th Place NE
Kenmore, WA 98028
Please send technical comments and questions about the site itself to the Webmaster.
Please send press releases and other announcements to pressrelease@thinfilmmfg.com. Announcements may be sent as email attachments, but must include a synopsis in the body of the email.
Eek! I just realized that the new template doesn't include a link to the contact page. Better fix that soonest!
In the interim, you can find it at http://www.thinfilmmfg.com/admin/about.htm#contact
Recently I've had a spate of comments making innocuous but generic and not terribly relevant remarks, from people with names or web sites pointing to stock promoters, Viagra sales, and so forth. I've been deleting these as spam.
If you are a real person and your comment has been deleted in this way, I apologize. Make a substantive comment under an actual human name (ideally, but not necessarily, your own), and point to a link that is even remotely relevant, and your comment will get through. Behave like a spammer, and be treated like one.
No, I haven't died or quit. I'm sorry about the lack of posts in recent months. I've been transitioning into different (and mostly bigger) projects for some new clients, and am still working out the necessary load balancing. I hope to be more conscientious going forward, and appreciate your patience.
The folks at Solid State Technology have invited me to maintain a blog under their umbrella, so I'll also be posting at http://thinfilmmfg.blogspot.com/. I expect that incarnation will be a bit more consistently on-topic than this one.
Comments are temporarily off due to a plague of comment spam that I don't have time to address at the moment. It's purely bad timing that this cuts off further comments on yesterday's post. If you'd like to comment, send me email and let me know whether you'd like your comment published, and what attribution (if any) you prefer.
On December 25, the Thin Film Manufacturing mail server bounced 544 spam messages.
Which in addition to allowing me to observe that these people truly have no life, encourages me to remind legitimate correspondents to check their maillogs. The filters are sometimes overly aggressive. I can usually fix the problem, but only if I know about it. I'm unlikely to spot your mail in the bounce log.
Fascinating. I somehow neglected to reset the time zone for the blog when I moved. I discovered this while reading a post with a time stamp that hadn't happened yet.
Now fixed. Apologies for the confusion.
Thanks to email and cell phones, having your permanent number disconnected isn't the disaster it once was. Still, having the new number makes me feel a lot more grounded and stable.
If I'm in your address tool of choice, please update it with the following permanent information:
+1 425 402 1608
PO Box 82441
Kenmore, WA 98028
All other information you may have is now obsolete. As always, the About Us page is the definitive source for current contact information.
Time to shut down for the upcoming move. I expect to be mostly offline until after Memorial Day, but will have access to email. That is probably the best way to reach me. For up to date contact information, please visit the About Us page.
With a political debate breaking out, things may be about to get heated around here. Seems like a good time for a preemptive repost of the Comment Policy:
Comments are the sole responsibility of the author. I will not edit the content or attribution of any comment, but I reserve the right to delete any comment for any reason. Obscenities, personal attacks, and irrelevance to the topic at hand are the most likely reasons, but I may add others without notice as circumstances or personal whims dictate.
I'd also like to remind anyone who objects to this policy, or to the editorial policies of any other site, that the Internet is a big place. In my corner of it, I make the rules. If you don't like them, you can very easily set up shop in your own corner and make whatever rules you like there.
On the software side, Movable Type flags anonymous comments as junk and does not notify me that they've been posted. If you want to be sure your comment appears in a timely manner, sign it. Movable Type also logs the IP addresses of all commenters.
Effective May 21, our new address will be:
Thin Film Manufacturing
PO Box 82441
Kenmore, WA 98028
The phone company warns that the more effort I invest in publishing the new number, the more likely it is to change. Meanwhile, the old one still works and will forward to the new one. For up-to-date move information, including phone and courier details, please see the About Us page. All electronic contacts stay the same.
As an anti-spam measure, comments are now held for review after posting. When I have time, I'll set up authentication so trusted commenters aren't moderated, but that's going to take a little while.
Note to self: if you change the blog password before you go on a trip, make sure the computer you take on the trip knows what the password is.
I'm back now. Sorry about the dead air.
By special request, a link to the Summerhill Kitten Farm.
The blogroll will come back eventually, but I haven't yet figured out the best way to work it into the new template.
The long-ignored site newsletter has new software, and a new page. It will have new content eventually, too, but I wouldn't count on that happening before the move.
There's a new link over on the right, titled Back Story. It's the result of my recent musings about ways to support non-linear content within a chronological weblog format. The Back Story section also follows the "fail faster" rule: get something out there for people to pound on instead of trying to perfect the first release. In other words, the section is highly experimental and subject to change without notice. Comments welcome.
Yes, we've moved. Things are likely to be in flux for a little while as we update templates and such. For now, you can get to the home page at http://www.thinfilmmfg.com, and to the pre-move blog archives at http://www.thinfilmmfg.com/mtblog/archives.html.
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