Rob Malda (born May 10, 1976), also known as CmdrTaco, is the founder of the website Slashdot. He is a graduate of Hope College.

His moniker originates in the Dave Barry book Booksources/0878576525. 'Commander Taco' is the final entry in a list of bad restaurants for business lunches.

Rob Malda also writes a monthly column for Computer Power User Magazine. His article is titled "The Department of Stuff" and has titles like adwords.txt and goodblog.txt. According to his magazine biography, "He spends his time fiddling with electronic gizmos, wandering the 'Net, watching anime, and trying to think of clever lies to put in his bio so that he seems cooler than he actually is." (CPU Magazine)

On Valentine's Day of 2002 Malda proposed to Kathleen Fent through Slashdot [http://slashdot.org/articles/02/02/14/143254.shtml?tid=166.

External links

• Personal homepage
• "Taco Hell"
• CmdrTaco's Slashdot.org profile page
• Marriage proposal Slashdot story
• Computer Power User Magazine Homepage
• CmdrTaco interview on the FLOSS Podcast

1976 births | Living people | Slashdot | Internet personalities