[OFB Cafe] Who's Still on Here?

[Peter Hollings]

I guess it's my turn.  I've been on this list since around 2001. I'm 
probably older than most of you and been around a bit. Went to business 
school (MIT) and concentrated on finance and information technology. 
Have worked in financial services industry, software development, 
consulting, etc. About 15 years ago (gosh, has it been that long?), I 
said to-hell with the rat race on Wall Street and moved south where I 
grew up. Most of my experience/connections, etc., were not transferable 
to the new environment, however, so this led happily to some life 
adjustments.  Among other things, I spent a year in rural Panama running 
a shrimp farm.

Linux/Open Source have long interested me. I think I have a copy of SUSE 
5 or 6 somewhere. But, work is necessarily a Windows environment and I 
have too little time to spend with Linux. (I'm writing this from a Mac.) 
Also, 911 was a wake up call to me to pay attention and try to figure 
out what was going on in the US and in the world, so that has taken a 
lot of time and energy.  I do however have a media PC running Myth TV.

Peter Hollings

Timothy Butler wrote:
> If you're on the list, why not post a bit about yourself, how you  
> ended up on here, etc. I see we have 28 members, many of which look  
> like familiar faces, but I'm not sure how many of those addresses are  
> still functional and not just ones that haven't upset Mailman's  
> bounce detector yet. Here, I'll start.
>
> Hi, I'm Tim. "Hello, Tim."
>
> Setting that point aside, the next obvious question is: how long have  
> you been talking to yourself? "Many years."
>
> Oookay.
>
> I'm Tim Butler, one of the co-administrators on both of the lists  
> that formed Cafe (OFB-Talk and FOSS-Cafe, nee, KDE-Cafe).  I'm editor  
> of Open for Business (which is that OFB.biz thing you see on the end  
> of the address). OFB was born in 2001 out of a discussion in OFB- 
> Talk's predecessor list, LX-Talk. I ended up on KDE-Cafe because I  
> was at the time an active KDE user and involved in a few  
> insignificant ways in KDE advocacy, at the old KDE League and  
> elsewhere. That was all before I became a turn coat, started using  
> GNOME, switched off of Linux desktops and became a Mac guy in May  
> 2004. I still admin Linux servers and tinker with Linux desktop  
> stuff. I also still write at Open for Business, but OFB is now a much  
> broader publication, covering nearly as many topics as Cafe.
>
> Offline, I'm slowly recovering from working in tech. I started my web  
> design business a decade ago and picked up computer repair about the  
> same time. I still do IT consulting, but hope to kick most of that  
> habit in about two years, save for odds and ends such as my web  
> hosting business. I'm working on an M.Div (Master of Divinity) at the  
> moment with the aim of teaching at a university. My tentative  
> research focus is on the interactions of theology and literature  
> (neatly bringing together my undergrad majors, so it seems). I also  
> fancy myself a poet, though not a very good one, and am rarely  
> without a camera or two or three to keep my shutter finger happy. I'm  
> a recent convert to Canon's EOS system.
>
> Well, enough useless (and utterly useless) trivia about me. :-)
>
> 	-Tim
>
> ---
> Timothy R. Butler | "The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the  
> window-panes,
> Editor, OfB.biz   | The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the  
> window-panes
> tbutler at ofb.biz   | Licked  its  tongue  into the  corners  of  the   
> evening,
> timothybutler.us  | Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains."
>                                                                  --  
> T.S. Eliot
>
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