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My Present
I joined Messaging Architects in August 2008, and am part of a team developing the next generation of e-mail and calendaring. You'll be hearing a lot from us in the near future...
My Past
Everybody has a past. That doesn't necessarily mean that it is of any interest, especially to a generation which believes that Steve Jobs (or was that Bill Gates?) invented computers, or that TCP was created on UNIX.
I've had several previous lives in the fields of computing and networking, dating back to 1970. I first appeared on the ARPAnet in 1973. I am even guilty of having written several early RFCs in the years before the TCP transition on January 1, 1983: 727, 734, 736, 747, 748, 752.
RFC 748 is the only RFC that is specifically marked in the RFC index with note date of issue. I failed to learn my lesson and commited a repeat offense with RFC 4042.
I am also guilty of having written the series of TELNET implementations that Guy Steele playfully immortalized in the April 1984 issue of the Communications of the ACM as The TELNET Song.
At one time, I was a well-known figure in an environment which is now long extinct.
Later, I invented an Internet Message Access Protocol that some people still use, and created and maintained its reference implementation that some people still find useful. And I wrote a few more RFCs; the total had cracked two dozen the last that I looked.
If you care about such things, then you probably know all about me and don't need to be told. If you don't know who I am, then you probably don't care and would prefer not to be wearied with tales about ancient history.
If you really care, read my professional biography.
My Family
The other members of my family are a Hsiao-Pao, a Yellow Labrador Retriever named Rena (the Rainy Girl, also the Rainy Bainy Biddley Bumpkins, the Twirly Girl, and especially the Missy Muddy Paws; formerly the Puppy Rabbit), and an evil tabby cat named Tabitha (who doesn't get to be called any silly names but is nicknamed Tabbity).
The Kidlet is now married. No grandkids yet (at least I hope not!).
My Home
I live on an island. My house is on a 1.13 acre lot at the top of a steep hill, surrounded by alder, fir, hemlock, maple, and cedar trees, and a 400 acre forest for my backyard.
And blackberries. Lots of blackberries. An aggressive thorny bramble that is good for nothing for 10 months out of the year.
My Septentrional Retreat
I own 50½ acres of wilderness with ¼ mile of waterfront in the Copper River Valley of Alaska.
Dining Recommendations
Did You Know?
The mammoth is the Official State Fossil, and the dragonfly is Official State Insect, of both Alaska and Washington State!!
What I Like To Do
Miscellany
I wrote up some information about Canada's gun laws, which can be found here.
Here is some important information which everbody should know, and more than you ever wanted to know about the calendar.
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