Most of my productive (daytime?) hours are spent at USAF Academy research centers. (M&SRC, CAStLE, WEdge, CoI, IITA) I keep busy working on adaptive networks, beowulf clusters, storage optimization, and other Big Iron^tm fun. I am interested in partitioning technologies, their resemblance to caches with strange attributes, and their multiple applications: fault tolerance, security and checkpoint-restart.  Having been around all these tools, I now want to convey how I think about these problems so I have been investigating information visualization, auralization (if you are European: sonification) and feeding data streams to game and simulation engines. Someday I'd like to unify management of all of these with an interface as in Johnny Mnemonic's final firewall offensive. It is encouraging that this is getting closer to reality. Perhaps a form of synesthesiac alzeheimer's? I am convinced that a mixture of The Adolescence of P1,The Shockwave Rider, Artist and Computer and Synergy is better and possible.

 

My dated personal hotlist is amusing for the ancient (~late 1997?) links on it. If only I had had the foresight to name it something clever, like Jerry Yang's hot list, which you may now know as Yahoo.

 

My daughter was diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, so I don't have as much time (or the energy even if I can find the time) for side projects, like when we were changing the world with technology in the late '90s. Though, I can and do provide identity assurance points for Cacert in the southern Front Range, Colorado, USA area. I do still provide web hosting resources to a variety of non-profit organizations.

 

That's all pretty OL. In RL, I may be playing with our four dogs. Two of them came from the San Luis Valley Animal Welfare Society, which I encourage you to support. Of course, I might just be playing Civilization, SimCity and Sims3, although lately its been on an iPhone instead of an open device.

 

I used to spend time running Granite Canyon's Public DNS service. (see: "change the world with technology", above) Now I suggest using Amazon's Route 53 or OpenDNS, although it is still disappointing that there is relative dearth of secondary servers available to the community.

 

This cartoon struck my engineering fancy when I first read it over twenty-five years ago. It has been near my work desk ever since. I have no idea of its origin. If you authored it, contact me and I will give you attribution or remove it, according to your wishes.