On the New Server!

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This is my personal home page. There's not much here, except for some files full of nothingness.

I am Network Operations Manager for NetAccess, an ISP located in Rochester, NY. It's a fun job, and keeps me busy. :-)

In late June, 2002, I was in Canada on routine business and met Dawn. Since then, we've formed quite the relationship and I love her muchly. (She loves me too, which makes it even better.) She has been responsible for many of the miles on my car, as well as the crunched rear bumper. She currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario, which is about 150 miles west of Rochester. Catch me online and I'll be all sappy and crap like that.

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My new car is named Kabutomushi, after the Japanese Rhinoceros beetle. It is a 2002 Toyota Prius with navigation system. Modifications so far include Harry's MP3 hack and the addition of a dual-band data-enabled ham radio. I have a remote trunk release in queue for install, as soon as I get my strength back.



  • PGP Public Key, useful with things like GnuPG
  • Note that old key 99A27DE7 was revoked and new key 3C7461E7 was created on October 1, 2002, due to the keyfob containing the old key being lost somewhere between Des Moines and Rochester. Please note that anything signed after about September 30, 2002 with the old key is probably NOT me. If this happens, please let me know ASAP.
  • Key fingerprint = D277 F7F4 2897 087D A356 981C 453B 525A 3C74 61E7


The WeatherPixie - Rochester
Rochester, NY

The WeatherPixie
Hamilton, ON
Weather Pixies are not intended to look like anyone in particular from either location

[Image of breadcrumb track from my APRS station (size varies)]
APRS Query scripts courtesy of Steve Dimse (K4HG) and findU.com. Maps from MapBlast. 
To those who know a little bit of C, I've always tried to explain my frustration
with politics by this analogy:  To me, governmental politics is like if I went
to my job every day, and there was a For-Loop Party and a While-Loop Party. 
Every time somebody was writing code and they needed a loop, the For-Loop Party
would demand that we write it as a for-loop, and the While-Loop Party would
demand that we restructure it as a while-loop.  Neither of them would actually
sit down and say, "Which approach makes the code more readable?"  Instead,
they'd just do a party line vote and whichever party happened to hold a majority
of the project at any given time, that's how we'd write the loop.
 
In short, it would be really dumb.

-- Jay Sweet
[really bandwidth intensive picture of myself to piss off dialup users]