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====== All about little old me... ======
I am a Army Reserve Soldier, and a full-time computer geek. I have worked at The University of Texas at San Antonio in the IT Department ever since leaving the active duty Army. I work in Enterprise Services, managing the Unix servers.
Please check out my [[mark:resume|resume]].
Go [[mark:blog/current|here]] for my weblog, including my journal from Iraq.
====== Broadcasting From Baghdad ======
I was deployed to Iraq from March 2004 to March 2005 with Charlie Company 2/7 Cav (1st Cavalry Division). I tried to keep a running [[mark/blog/current|journal]] of what I was up to so that my family and friends could stay aware of what was going on with me. Since I have been back, I have been going back and adding in entries to fill out the rest of the journal.
//This section is nowhere near finished.// If you are interested in my experiences in Iraq, please check this area from time to time. I will be updating it as often as I can.
====== Interests ======
===== Books =====
I am a very big SciFi/Fantasy fan, and I also really enjoy Stephen King and Tom Clancy as well.
My favorite authors include:
* Anne McCaffrey - who can't love Pern and the DragonRiders?
* Robert Jordan - used to like him, until I realized that he was going to keep writing the same Wheel of Time novel over and over again until he died, which he did.
* Isaac Asimov - 'nuff said
* Stephen King - aka the Mad Genius. Roland and his ka-tet have consumed many hours of my time, may it do ya fine.
* Glen Cook - best fantasy military writer ever. The Black Company rules!
* etc, etc, etc....
===== Music =====
===== Computers and Stuff =====
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* I put together a [[Linux Udev Presentation]] for the August 2005 [[http://www.satlug.org|San Antonio Linux Users Group]] meeting.