{"id":87613969,"date":"2006-01-07T23:27:39","date_gmt":"2006-01-08T07:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?page_id=87613969"},"modified":"2009-09-23T10:27:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T18:27:18","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?page_id=87613969","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, this is where I\u2019m going to write some sorta bio or something.<\/p>\n<p>But I haven\u2019t yet.<\/p>\n<p>What does that tell you about me?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so here\u2019s some stuff about me, without giving too much away.<\/p>\n<ul>\t<\/p>\n<li>I\u2019m in my 30s (more like 40s)<\/li>\n<p>\t<\/p>\n<li>Have lived in Victoria, BC. Kingston, ON. Vancouver, BC. Chilliwack, BC. and then finally, Vancouver, BC<\/li>\n<p>\t<\/p>\n<li>I\u2019m married, and have been with the same woman for 9 years (more like 14 now)<\/li>\n<p>\t<\/p>\n<li>Two kids: boys, born early 2002 and late 2005.<\/li>\n<p>\t<\/p>\n<li>I\u2019ve got long grey &amp; brown hair, and it\u2019s been long for more than ten years, so no, I\u2019m not cutting it soon. [Edit: Except that I did, so it\u2019s only shoulder-length now.] [Edit: Except that now it&#8217;s SHORT, for me, at least.] (and TOTALLY GREY)<\/li>\n<p>\t<\/p>\n<li>I WAS Desktop Enginering Support person for a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eacanada.com\">Game Company of Note<br \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>My first computer was a Commodore 64, then a C128 that I used until 1991 (still have it, and it still works, as far as I know).<\/li>\n<li>I know enough to make money supporting every OS from DOS 3.2 to Windows Server 2003, and have been doing so full-time since 1993.<\/li>\n<li>I can usually come up with a solid analogy for pretty much anything I\u2019m trying to explain to a layperson. Except for reverse lookup zones in DNS. I still don\u2019t get that myself\u2026<\/li>\n<li>I enjoy chasing viruses and, more recently, spyware (hoping to coin the term Spyrus\/Spirus or Spyral)<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m interested in cryptography and computer security in general (had a PGP key since 1992, I think)<\/li>\n<li>I think <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steganography\">steganography<\/a> will be the next big thing for secure communication.<\/li>\n<li>I collect audio playing devices like most people collect shoes.<\/li>\n<li>Same goes for little USB cameras, it seems.<\/li>\n<li>I install every weird little application I find, usually in order to embed it into my memory for later recall.<\/li>\n<li>I also do it to sharpen my desktop\/server skills, by messing up my own gear, mostly so I know what it looks like when I see something similar on another machine.<\/li>\n<li>On a given day, I carry a Blackberry, an iPod Touch between two and seven USB memory drives (totalling something like 2.5GB), an RJ45 loopback device<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve got WiFi 802.11G at home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Obviously I don&#8217;t update this NEARLY often enough.<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=683cfbd9-b2c7-8bd8-9fb1-5d505b5bc404\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, this is where I\u2019m going to write some sorta bio or something. But I haven\u2019t yet. What does that tell you about me? Okay, so here\u2019s some stuff about me, without giving too much away. I\u2019m in my 30s (more like 40s) Have lived in Victoria, BC. Kingston, ON. Vancouver, BC. Chilliwack, BC. and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-87613969","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87613969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87613969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87613969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87614573,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87613969\/revisions\/87614573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87613969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}