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• my software
• my recipes
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• Contact me

• Friends

  • Joe Deveau has a band. It's pretty cool, and he puts on a good show.
  • Heather was a coworker of mine at Linens 'N Things in Hyannis. She is now my girlfriend. Nice how that works out sometimes. (She doesn't want her last name shared, so I've removed it.)
  • Christine Jamiol was an email penpal of mine; I think I may have scared her off, though. She lives in NH, though she grew up about a ten minute walk from my house.
  • bluesock.org -- A link to a number of old friends from Boston College. Thanks to Will Guaraldi for the link.

• Geek Culture

  • Slashdot
  • The Register -- The notoriously snarky British IT 'zine -- I read it daily.
  • User Friendly -- Some say Illiad has lost his edge, but UF is the only geek comic I read regularly. And I met my email pen pal Christine through the UFies personal site, so I don't think I'll be giving it up any time soon.
  • Interactive Fiction -- Stephen van Egmond's interactive fiction (you know, like text adventures? Like Zork?) page is a link to everything you ever wanted to know about text adventure game design. I've made a couple of games myself, but never quite finished them.

• Computer Technology

  • Linux.org -- You've heard of it. You may be wondering what it is. You may already know but need more information. Or you may just want news. Or a cute stuffed penguin. Here you go.
  • Apple -- I've used Macs for quite a long time now. I think they're excellent technologically (especially with MacOS X out there now), even if the company gives me the willies sometimes. And hell, even if you happen to hate Macs, you know deep down you still want one of those Titanium PowerBooks...
  • NetBSD, FreeBSD, Open BSD, Darwin, xMach -- The many faces of Beastie, the BSD daemon. All are open source, most BSD licensed, and they have a pedigree going back to the earliest days of the Unix world. I am not a BSD user myself (yet -- but when I get a Mac that will do OS X...), but I feel strongly that their cause should be promoted. See also my History of BSD.
  • Speaking of Unix: Erik Levenez' Unix site and unix-systems.org are great places to find information on the history of Unix and related systems.
  • David Cary's Computer Architecture -- Something I've been meaning to get to; just found this page recently, as a matter of fact. Anyone know where to find a cheap FPGA burner setup?
  • A BBS on the iOpener net terminal -- I have one and am trying to figure out how to open it up. Any ideas?

• Pet Causes

  • opensource.org -- I believe very strongly in Open Source software. If you have created something that you think could change the world, can you confidently say that it's good enough to give away?
  • FactNet
  • Operation Clambake
    These sites relate to cults, especially Scientology. While I don't have a moral issue with proselytizing (unless it's obnoxious or coercive), I do feel that no one has a right to warp your mind to force you to believe something. Religion should be about what you choose to believe, not what someone else shoves down your throat. Scientology in particular is one of the most frightening of these belief systems; read why at the above two links.