| In my professional life, I am a Linux and Solaris system administrator / operations manager for a major web portal. I have a strong background in computer science and previous occupations include jobs as as a software engineer and as a DBA. I used to be a C/C++ programmer, but these days I find most of my private and professional work being done in Perl. You might also be interested in my resume. |  |
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I occasionally fancy myself something of a writer, and I have written a number of articles (mostly about Linux) which have been published by a number of magazines and websites. You might be interested in my bibliography and archive. |
| I'm also a man known for his quaint obsessions. I tend to take topics (sometimes popular, and often not) and learn every little detail about them. (My support for Linux may have started this way.) Currently, I am researching a book on the origins of the names of places in Massachusetts and have put drafts of some of the entries up in a blog. |  |
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In a former life, I was utterly obsessed with MUSH (socially-oriented online games) and the history of online civilization. In that spirit, I maintained the "Hitchhiker's Guide to TinyTIM" (TinyTIM being one of the oldest and most popular of the MUSHes). I have recently copied the whole thing onto the web and you might be interested the now-outdated guide articles. (Although formatting is still a work-in-progress.) |
| Other than all of that, I'm also a pretty normal person. I have a personal blog and you are welcome to take a look... although I don't post anything interesting there. You also might be interested in knowing a little more about me. And now I have a small Doctor Who website. |  |