Much as I don't need *another* social network, google plus has, well, some pluses ! Seems a good place for in-depth discussion - I expect that is largely due to the early adopter crowd, but we will see.
Michael lives and works in the Blue Mountains, Australia (just outside of Sydney). 2 kids and a poodle.
He retired from Red Hat, worked on Drools and deltacloud and other bits, now working on a startup (CloudBees) when he isn't updating his profile, and various open source things.