Odds & Ends

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Affiliations

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• I'm a member of Grace Baptist Church of Essex, a wonderful Reformed Baptist congregation in Essex, Ontario!
• I'm a System Administrator at Tool-Plas Systems Inc.
• I'm a member of USENIX Computing Systems Association
• I'm a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
• I'm an associate member of the Free Software Foundation (member #5413)

Varied Things That Consume My Interest & Time

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• Reading and Writing (mentioned elsewhere)
• Indexing web links at del.icio.us
• Blogging at Codex Markianus
• I'm finding various species of plants and animals
• I attend Windsor Unix Users Group meetings
• I enjoy the brilliant acting of the late Peter Sellers
• I try to do some software development here and there
• I've been playing a lot of chess (2 player & 4 player) and scrabble

Past Projects

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• Book Publication Credits:
• Python Cookbook 2nd Ed. by O'Reilly Media, March 2005 (Code Contributions)
• Python Cookbook 1st Ed. by O'Reilly Media, June 2002 (Code Contributions)
• XML and PHP by New Riders, June 2002 (Technical Reviewer)

Causes Worth Supporting

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• Your local church!
• The Voice of Martyrs
• The Python Software Foundation
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation
• The Free Software Foundation
• Teen Challenge
• Engineers Without Borders
• The Fraiser Institute
• The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
• The Mozilla Foundation
• The Gnome Foundation