I'm a Systems Engineer at Intuit in San Diego, California.

I live north of San Diego in Escondido with my lovely wife and wonderful children.

We attend Emmanuel Faith Community Church.

My personal PC ("warthog") has an AMD 64 X2 CPU 2.2GHz with 2GB RAM and dual boots Windows XP SP2 and Ubuntu 6.10. We're not planning on upgrading to Microsoft Vista.

I support the men and women who serve in our military and who are willing to give their lives to defend the freedoms you and I enjoy.

I used to read Slashdot several years ago. Digg has taken over the helm of technical news, but the noise-to-information ratio is so high, it's not as valuable as the old Slashdot. I can no longer keep up by going to individual web sites for news. I use Google Reader to keep up with things.

I've been a member of Netflix since April 2001

One of my past projects is called System Summaries and is built using perl.

One of my next blog projects is to install and learn Moveable Type, followed by MediaWiki (which, of course, is not a blog).

One of my next programming projects is to learn Java and/or Javascript. In preparing to learn Java, I worked my way thru the book Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML. Highly recommended!

Support a safer Internet by not using Microsoft Internet Explorer. Join our family and use a safer and more standards compliant browser like Mozilla Firefox.

I've been converting my parent's family history from ragged MS Word documents to a more portable web format. You can see my first efforts here.

I used to play Dungeons & Dragons back in college (between Chainmail and AD&D). Last year (2005), my son Brian and I started playing again. Woohoo! I'm looking forward to playing Neverwinter Nights 2 which I got for Christmas. I spend way too much time playing Animal Crossing: Wild World! on my Nintendo DS Lite.

I must have too much time on my hands because during the summer of 2000 I completed work on a web page that contains about 90% of the text of the first 3 (original) Dungeons & Dragons books as well as the Greyhawk supplement, merged and re-organized into a more consistent format. This document is also available as a pdf file. The PDF doc is preferable as it still has the graphics.

I'm a member of USENIX and SAGE.

Last updated on 12 June 2007.
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