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It looks self promotional because saying you're the author would have sufficed. If you can't recognize how this lacks tact, nothing I can say will help.
disagree. Saying I was the author AND I wrote programming articles was important to display my history of writing 'hacker news'. I can't see how you think it was self-promotion knowing this. Speaking of self-promotion, did you really take 6 different shirts to a headshot shoot ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandofsky/page5/ )? And you call yourself a Boston-man! Haha, good luck to you in the future.
A typical headshot session lasts a few hours, involves several outfits, and results in several hundred photos which you progressively narrow down. I used that Flickr set to solicit feedback on potential picks.
I didn't link to that anywhere in my profile, or on my personal site. Your behavior is childish, bordering on creepy.
You should consider how this makes you look. I don't think people would take you seriously after reading this.