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Simon P. Ditner
Email: simon-oryng@uc.org
Hello Traveller. I'm the owner of this server.
Fresh:
- Getting Started With MIDI
- Natural Languages
- TAUG Topics
- Restaurants I frequent
- Canadian VoIP hardware retailers
- Grocery Shopping
- My personal howto repository
- My z-machine / asterisk project is getting off the ground
- By sheer will, I launched the Toronto Asterisk Users Group website.
- I started a new job in June!
- I recently founded the Ontario Asterisk and Voice-over-IP Users group with some friends from Waterloo
- I discovered an old table that I filled out when I lived with Anita.
- My resume
I like to eat:
What I do with my time:
- Row (as in Sculls)
- Practice TaeKwonDo.
- Inline skating
- Work(ed) for the Internet branch of Sprint Canada (now Rogers Telecom).
- Tinker, and Program (mostly in perl) on my computers (running OpenBSD, UbuntuLinux and DebianLinux)
- Chat on IRC (irc.perl.org:6667, #uc), using irssi
- Surf the web
- Read
- Travel (see below)
- On the rare occasion, I'll play some computer games
- Cook
My Mantra is to:
- Write things down, review them, do them.
- Keep a history
What fosters my development?
- I work best when my skills are recognized and rewarded -- but also challenged by mentors.
- I keep my thoughts in a box, the lid is open
- I'm also trying to follow a timeline
- I seem to have become a member of the Toronto Perl Mongers
- I filled out a Career Profile, and the machine told me what to do.
Travelling
Places I've been:
- Santa Clara, Havana; Cuba
- Tehran, Iran
- Athens, OH
- Chicago, IL
- Mountain View, CA
- San Francisco, CA
- Washington, DC
- Boston, MA
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Cape Kennedy, FL
- Buffalo, NY
- All over BC
- Peten Province, Guatemala City; Guatemala
- Various stops in Mexico
- Guangzhou, GD, China
Places I'm going:
- London, UK
- NYU Telecommunications Laboratory, New York, NY
Places I should go:
- Fjords of Norway
- Manhatten, on may 28th or July 12th. The sun will rise and set in alignment with the east/west streets.
- Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Kingston, Jamaica
Stuff I'm working on
- Becoming a perl guru
- Treemap perl module for CPAN
- A Wireless ISP
My Working Goals:
What makes me work?
- Working helps me define who I am. Through working I develop, and search for meaning.
Ideal Job:
- Independent work
- Research
- Detached Group interaction
Ideal Company:
- Internet based
- Fast, flexible
- Worthwhile projects
constant Goals:
- To improve and expand my skill-set
- To be at the leading edge of technology
- To receive reasonable compensation
- To do worthwhile work
Current Goals:
- Clustered, and distributed computing applications
- Data warehousing applications, trending, etc.
- Environmental weather analysis
- Enterprise level projects
Everthing below this point are things I've apparently abandoned due to NADD:
Stuff to read
Websites that I think look nice.
- http://www.konfabulator.com/
- A program for windows that does the same as konfab: http://www.stardock.com/products/odnt/
