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| Personal background |
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I'm a Web Consultant and Technical writer in Southern CA. Currently my primary career focus has been as a web application developer, creating web based intranet applications. In the last year or so I have been writing more and more. Some of my work has been published on builder.com and I have contributed on a couple of technical books. I hope to write more and more (enough to pay the bills) and phase out my Web Consultant role.
Hobbies... well I have two dogs; Terrance and Phillip, they are great and are more entertaining than anything you might find on TV. When I am not working in my home office on this or that, I am either puttering around my house, or working on my car (my baby). I drive a moderately modified VW Passat 1.8T, the T is for Turbocharged and let me tell you... She can really fly.
I am trying to get my thoughts together to begin writing some of the various fiction that is in my head but I keep finding new places to work so I never get much rest :) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Obviously I think ET is out there, why else would I be doing this? :) I actually heard about SETI at home right around it's initial launch. I've since then signed up a few times (I kept forgetting my password or which email I used) and now have devoted my work machines as well as those in my home office to the task.
The math speaks for itself, there are far too many stars with far too many planets in orbit for none to have any life. We're not alone, we ca't be, what's the point if not to go forth and meet others?
A beacon? Well besides the decades of television that we're beaming out now, I don't think there is much more to say in a transmission. The old and still transmitting TV signals are beacon enough. That combined with the SETI efforts should one day (hopefully sooner rather than later) find who we're looking for.
I very much believe in the concept of shared computing. Why waste FLOPS? I have servers at home that have such light loads even when I am home that they might as well work on this problem. My workstation and laptop also contribute but only when I am not using them.
My only suggestion would be to maybe make the application more interactive.. Not so much requiring me to sit there but have it connect to the net more often, show me random other peoples progress. Things like that. Project stats in more or less real time. At least for those of us with always on internet it's not that much of an issue. |
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