...making Linux just a little more fun!
Ben is the Technical Editor for Linux Gazette and a member of The Answer Gang; this month, he's also standing in for the Editor-in-Chief, Mike Orr, who is away on vacation.
His subsequent experiences include creating software in nearly a dozen
languages, network and database maintenance during the approach of a
hurricane, and writing articles for publications ranging from sailing
magazines to technological journals. After a seven-year Atlantic/Caribbean
cruise under sail and passages up and down the East coast of the US, he is
currently anchored in St. Augustine, Florida. He works as a technical
instructor for Sun Microsystems and a private consultant. His current set
of hobbies includes flying, yoga, 18th century reenactment, blacksmithing,
sea-shanty singing, and writing; his Palm Pilot is crammed full of alarms,
most of which contain exclamation points.
He has been working with Linux since 1997, and credits it with his complete
loss of interest in waging nuclear warfare on parts of the Pacific Northwest.
Ben was born in Moscow, Russia in 1962. He became interested in electricity
at age six - promptly demonstrating it by sticking a fork into a socket and
starting a fire - and has been falling down technological mineshafts ever
since. He has been working with computers since the Elder Days, when they
had to be built by soldering parts onto printed circuit boards and programs
had to fit into 4k of memory. He would gladly pay good money to any
psychologist who can cure him of the resulting nightmares.