Michael Finocchiaro is the Senior Global Architect / Technical Evangelist in R&D for a French software company. He has worked for two of the biggest IT firms in the business and two medium-size software ones.
He is also on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/mfinocchiaro where you can find his professional details.
He is on twitter as le_fino.
As for personal interests, outside of blathering on this blog, he also loves reading, rock-climbing, snowboarding, running (semi- and marathon distance), triathlons (Olympic distance) and most of all being a husband and dad of 2.
Other interests in music, movies, and life in general are left as exercises for the reader to glean from the various articles published here.
You had asked about a post I had written over at http://www.thingsthatmademegowtf.com/2009/08/adventure-in-voiding-my-macbook-pros.html this past April. Sorry for just getting back to you now, but I was going through revision and noticed three more nice words. What model does Apple System Profiler report your Macbook is, e.g. MacBook3,2 (or a family #). This will help me diagnose why your fans may be spinning faster. It’s possible that the increased power load is drawing more heat to cool, but MOST heat is generated from the GPU and CPU, so that is unlikely. This is certainly a curiosity! Is the drive grounded out well?