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You're traveling through another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's a signpost up ahead: your next stop: "The Techno-Wizard Zone".(My attempt at humor. Some are better than others. The object of course was to mimic a Rod Serling intro to the Twilight Zone, the major shape and direction of my life.)
Random quote.
Experts have expert fun
telling us things can't be done.
(Piet Hein)Random link.
Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics Hail & Welcome. Greetings & felicitations. This section had some technical stuff in it but I decided I wasn‘t even interested.
Hey, WAKE UP. New Feature as of 23-Jun-2005. Doesn‘t happen very often.
I decided to try my hand at a blog of sorts. It‘s still short as I just started it. If you‘re curious, by all means, please read my blog. Note, it’s my blog, no one else’s.
Obviously the rest of these pages are about me and what I like (as strange and bizzare as that can be sometimes). To the left in the side bar are some, hopefully, interesting links. Please feel free to browse. If anyone is looking for an old computer wizard with many dragons under his sword and magics under his belt, PLEASE, you are invited to look at my full Web version résumé or, if you wish, the summary Web version. It’s short and sweet and to the point. The full blown job can be a little daunting. If you really must insist on killing and eliminating another desperately needed forest by having hard copy, the following links will provide you with printable (but no where near as attractive) versions in MS Word format
I’m always interested in hearing about opportunities. Really.
My Art and Craft is that of computer, network and information technomancy. Lately I’ve been practicing thaumaturgy (miracles) in linux/UNIX with the demonology of distributed systems and networks (network software writing & degugging), log file tasseomancy (analysis and system/network forensics), the more practical forms of system and network security divination (tighten/hardening systems and networks against intrusion and tracking down the source if a break-in occurs, although in 17 years at Northeastern University not one of my systems ever had a confirmed root or system level crack), real-time witchcraft, sorcery and wizardry as well as other more arcane arts (configurations and tunnings). I am fluent with incantations in many unnatural (computer) languages and have on occasion practiced necromancy on crash dumps and other unpleasant things. Augury reading done while you wait. White magic is a specialty but you do need to know black magic to be able to defend against it (you need to know how to crack a system/network to protect it). I’m a very good software conjurer and white magic engineering practitioner. I’m very good at what I do. I should be. I've been doing it for over 38 years and there is still much to learn.
My darker side has been known to surface from time to time. (Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards for we are subtle and sometimes quick to anger.) You do not want to be in the vicinity when that happens as I am known to throw lightening bolts with both great power and accuracy. Just ask anybody I’ve tracked for performing socially negative actions on systems and networks. I’m very tenacious when it comes to this and have been known to divine or squeeze valid information from random entropy on occation. Or you can ask the odd vendor here and there who has ticked me off and has shortly thereafter learned the depth of that mistake. My politely worded but emphatic nastygrams (properly thought out and incanted magic spells if you prefer) have been known to cause near firings, initiate procedural changes in departments, shake entire geographic regions, and otherwise make it known that I am displeased. And all with out raising my voice. I should point out that I’m usually safe to be near as no one has actually vanished in a flash of chaos or spontaneously combusted while in my presence for some time. I must be mellowing. A pitty that.
Comments and suggestions (useful ones please, all others are immediately aported, via quantum uncertainty, to /dev/null) can be sent to my mailbox, which gets read regularly, using this form.
Advertizements get deleted and I will complain bitterly and vociferously to your ISP as well as cast a protection spell against you (ah, the wonders of mail filter incantations). Be aware that I’ve had people kicked off the Internet for spamming me and take great pleasure in doing so. I don’t take kindly to this silly spamming activity and my threshold for such is very low. I consider bandwidth a precious commodity, mine as well as the Internet’s and my ISP’s.However, if you have legitimate reason to contact me I will try to respond as soon as I can. If well fed, watered, and rested I’m generally quite friendly and very approachable.
Peace, may we see and understand that which is around us.
Credits
I did all the typing and most of the inventing of the various spells and incantations in HTML for all of this so thank me. I read a grimoire (“The Non-Designer’s Web Book” by Robin Williams and John Tollett) and learned so thank me again. I’m sure there is much more to learn. I keep learning from others. But I had some help from a couple of sorcerers in the mystic arts of graphic design who were patient enough with me to give hints, tips, tricks, (not that I didn’t come up with a few of my own mind you) and some gentle constructive critisism when asked. They are both professionals I might add. The sorcerers in question are Deanna Brown-Aho and Seth Merriam both currently of the NU Educational Technology Center.Thanks guys.
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