My wide-ranging PC IT background includes desktop and server programming, lan, email and database admin, web design, content management, technical writing, desktop publishing, technical support and consulting.

I’m a jack-of-web-techs, skilled in internet technologies. I enjoy using open source software to frame technology solutions. How can I help you?

Computer problems
are endless.
I encourage daily walks in nature for health^#1,
meditation for equanimity,
and hiring me
to keep your tech-work runnin smooth.

On Open Source Technology
(Cooperation Makes Sense)

“The basic idea behind open source is very simple. When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing.

  We in the open source community have learned that this rapid evolutionary process produces better software than the traditional closed model, in which only a very few programmers can see the source and everybody else must blindly use an opaque block of bits.” —from OpenSource.org

I code to web-standards:

so designs are easier to maintain, which saves you $$.

A couple of Open Source articles:

• Is open source a business "megatrend"?
• Can open source save US health care? No, but it can help! Here’s why I think personal exercise will be crucial.

A couple of open source freeware sites:

• The latest best Desktop Freeware from PCMag
• Freeware from Fossfor.us, for linux users
• Open software from Source Forge, where I go for programming open source software

#1: Five minutes of exercise in nature improves physical and mental health: A new study in the journal Environmental Science & Technology found that just a five-minute 'dose' of exercising in nature provided the biggest boost in people's self esteem. The study further found that being active in green species with water provided additional improvements in people's mental health.