I work at Network Appliance as a Professional Services Engineer in Research Triangle Park, NC.

A few items that I like or think about...
The Loss of wildlife deserves everybody's ANGER. Anger that the World we hand over to our children will be a lesser one for our failures. Hundreds of species are endangered. Some have already become extinct. for others, the situation is critical. and its not just a threat to Wildlife. It's a threat to us all. because we are a part of Nature. not apart from it. In the complex ecological web that makes up this world, whatever happens to one strand of the web affects all others. ~ Taken without permission from an advertising insert for Canon in Oct. 2000 issue of National Geographic. Can you please go back and re-read it?		These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their company; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. The NASDAQ, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value."  -Thomas Paine (kinda)
Is it all just one big illusion?		On-Line TECH books (Perl, O'Reilly, ASP, even Einstein Theories) (requires authentication...send me email)
"We abuse the land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we will begin to use it with love and respect." -Anonymous		Need a reason to appreciate the Planet? Take a look at the World Wildlife Fund travel Photoalbum
I went to the Asheville School		On Success, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Feel The Heat! - A realistic scenario of global warming for the not-too-distant future		Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering - Yoda (From Star Wars)
There's two dates in time they'll carve on your stone, and everyone knows what they mean. What's more important is the time that is known in that little dash there in between." garth brooks		Click here to see the Ten Immutable Laws of Computer Security
"Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or and work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart." -- Author unknown		"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an action, but a habit." -- Aristotle