About me.. (personal)
Hobbies include computers, driving, downhill (snow) skiing, hiking, movies, camping and playing with almost anything technical.
My spare time is spent with my wife, playing with something technical or driving somewhere. I also have a built-in need to run a server, so here it is.
Amusements include:
- World Of Warcraft
I'm not addicted, really.. I can stop anytime I want. - SecondLife, an online world.
This online community is very unique. It's more than just a multiuser chat environment. You have the ability to build, program and create almost anything. The possibilities are limited by a few technical limitations and the limits of your imagination. - Driving.. yes as in getting in the car and going places. I can get enjoyment even from the drive to the corner store most days. I love road trips and longer drives too. In 2005 a friend and I did a 27 hour road trip from San Diego, California to Wisconsin.. our trip back a week later included St. Louis. The drive to San Fransisco from San Diego is also usually a nice small escape (8-12 hours).
- Verizon's high-speed wireless..
Ok, driving in the car at 80mph while downloading a file at just over 1mbit.. who doesn't like that? ;)
Annoyances include:
- SecondLife, an online world.
Yes, I know I listed SecondLife above.. but they're also an annoyance. The people who run SecondLife really didn't think before acting. They went and built this wonderful system and then say "we've made it expandable, we want to show it off!" and when they do expand and reach over 20k users online, it breaks. They continue to patch the system and "resolve" the issues which keep coming back. Instead of further limiting the system until they can really update the technology they've decided it's most important for the world to remain online in a broken state. Additionally, money transfers and things that fail when the world breaks have no way to be tracked. In writing to one of the head people of SecondLife, they responded in under 1 hour during non-business hours about a corporate spammer from Nissan they had, but fail to ever respond to actual issues of importance. It's all about image and not about making things work and keeping the users happy. When there's an alternative, I'll be making the move away from SecondLife. - Saturn (the car company)
When my engine died at only 70k miles they promptly shipped it off and when I finally got them to agree to "investigating it" they said they could no longer track the engine and would have no way to investigate. Additionally, they had seen the engine in their own service center 1 month almost to the day before it died. For this vehicle, most miles were highway and since there was a Jiffy Lube on my way home from the office, I stopped in very regularly for oil changes since it allowed me to miss rush-hour.. so yes, I did my regular maintenace. I feel that Saturn shipped away the evidence before an investigation could be performed. Their attitude about the whole process was less than accomindating.
Technology I like to use would include PDA/Phones, IRC, Linux & Windows, pine & Thunderbird, Google, irssi and webcamXP.
About me.. (work)
Resumes are available in html or MS Word formats.
By title I'm usually a unix systems administrator, by description I'm more of a "make this work" person.
My background ranges from retail sales to helpdesk to systems administration to evaluation of technologies to business management.