For many years I have heard coworkers ask about telecommuting. "When
will we be able to work from home" they would ask. Usually they would
ask this during the open questions section of a company update
meeting. I could just barely make out the slight eye roll of the
manager that would eventually answer the question.

I've been developing software professionally for about 13 years now.
The first 12 years of my career were spent at a Semiconductor company
in Idaho. It's probably not hard to figure out which one I'm talking
about as there is only one left. But that's another story.

Recently I was recruited to Savannah, GA to work for a friend at a
startup he was forming. I was lured by the opportunity to work in a
new manufacturing environment where things were just starting. An
opportunity to make quite a few of those initial IS decisions.
Hopefully I could make them right the first time. The title, CIO,