Update, February 2012: I received an email recently from Adam, claiming that the various trolling efforts detailed in this post and its comments were by a disgruntled former employee that he had a professional falling out with.
I don't see any way to prove this either way, but thinking about it, even if it was him, he now apparently wishes he hadn't done it, which indicates an improvement in maturity levels over the last 5 years.
So, I'm going to put the original post behind a cut, and leave this notice at the top - either Adam is the victim of a bit of deliberate reputational damage, in which case he has my sympathies, or at worst he's a better man now than he was then, in which case he has my congratulations.
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I don't see any way to prove this either way, but thinking about it, even if it was him, he now apparently wishes he hadn't done it, which indicates an improvement in maturity levels over the last 5 years.
So, I'm going to put the original post behind a cut, and leave this notice at the top - either Adam is the victim of a bit of deliberate reputational damage, in which case he has my sympathies, or at worst he's a better man now than he was then, in which case he has my congratulations.