Interesting, so he's still a (part-time) technical writer for Microsoft? Does he write MSDN articles? I might have read more of his works than I thought...

The news about the planned hollywood adaptation is both exciting and frightening. These are really not cinematic stories as far as I can tell, unless you're ready to transform a story that happens inside someone's mind, like "Understand", into a graphical adventure like "Lucy". But after all, why not. I'm not one to say that a bad movie adaptation can really hurt a book - the book doesn't care.