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Part of this site is going to be my nerd devotional. Fair warning before the non-nerds go crosseyed.

I have been a Linux user for many years, but started exclusively using it for the desktop starting in 2004. Familiarity with the platform allowed me to explore using it in the home, but as a Windows user, getting my PC virused to death every month was certainly enough to push me over the edge. So one day in December of ‘03, I installed a copy of Red Hat over Windows.

It was a crude, clunky experience at first. And since then I have made the progression through various Linux releases, and increased my technical competency to the point where I’ve fashioned my desktop to be many times more useful and powerful than it could ever be under Windows.

I’ve created a video to give a peek of what my new environment is like. By no means do I have a blazingly fast computer. It’s just a testament to what good software, unburdened by institutional practices and refined by thousands of dedicated open-source developers, can do to the humble PC.

I have thousands of photos from my travels. I’ve been trying to find the right solution for accommodating all these. I wrote a neat script in PHP which will create thumbnails and autosize expanded views using only one source image. Plus it reads from the directory so all I have to is drop in a folder. Nice.

First up: A highlight of my better photos.

I’ve been here for six months now.

I’m pretty content with the life I’ve made for myself here. I have a great job, nice friends. I am close to my older sister. I have much less stress, and a more money in the bank than before. I’m officially counting my blessings.

The winter will subside and bring on the spring. What will life be like by then I wonder?

This is my first blog entry.