<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Eric Christensen <<a href="mailto:eric@christensenplace.us">eric@christensenplace.us</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 </div><div class="im">On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 18:34, wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) </div>Comment: Use GnuPG with Firefox : <a href="http://getfiregpg.org" target="_blank">http://getfiregpg.org</a> (Version: 0.7.8) iEYEARECAAYFAkqvmd8ACgkQfQTSQL0MFMGm6ACfawiSyu/NAgWTn0vS8i6o3gB5 trUAnj2jlITStLPX5axcZd+9Q79ymTyL =O64h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- <div><div></div><div class="h5"> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Thank you for the opportunity to introduce myself. I Googled the name "Mark > Walker" and about 22,600,000 hits were returned; none of them me in the > first few pages. I then Googled the name "Mark Caldwell Walker" and about > 168,000 hits were returned; all of them me in the first few pages. > > As one of those "older guys" my curriculum vitae might not be the best > approach for an introduction, but I will point out that I've had plenty of > chances to make mistakes and to learn from them. I do love to learn, and > that's one of the reasons I'm here. I am here also in search of new > challenges, new ways to produce meaningful results that actually help > people, and along with that genuine personal fulfillment. That might seem a > little demanding, especially from someone who's not yet retired from his day > job and therefore has only nights and weekends to offer for now. But I > sense that the time is right for me to venture into these areas where I've > only been lurking in listservs for far too long. > > My writing projects include the three science fiction novels that appear in > the Google search returns mentioned above. My professional writing includes > some newspaper writing in my younger years, which naturally followed my BA > in Journalism. I've since written some professional documents for previous > employers, which were in the telecommunications and computer project > management fields and briefed them to executive management. > > My other degree is an MS in Management. That's not very computer related on > the surface, but I've also been a licensed radio amateur since 1967 > (although I'm "rare DX") and my first home computer was a Commodore 64. I'm > not a programmer, but I've played with FORTRAN, Basic, Pascal, C++, Visual > Basic, Java, and Bash scripting. Certs include A+ and Network+, and I've > been studying up on Security+ and Certified Ethical Hacker. In the past few > years I've been researching XML, and think I could produce DocBook products > based on the v5 RELAXNG schema. > > I also have a radio broadcasting background that spans about 9 commercial > stations. This was on-air experience; yes, I was your friendly local radio > DJ. My production of the FredPod podcast (feel free to Google it) is my > effort to enjoy broadcasting activities that take advantage of the > people-empowering trends in this field. I've been attempting to get the open > source Rivendell application running, but so far that remains a work in > progress. > > One other thing about me that might be of interest is I'm also known as > "Santa Claus." I like to say that the white beard is real and so is the > jolliness, but I wear the red suit only on special occasions anymore. > > Pleased to meet you, > Mark > > gpg --fingerprint AA482E46 > pub 1024D/AA482E46 2006-07-06 [expires: 2011-07-05] > Key fingerprint = D780 2F66 B08D 739D 3BF0 2468 7C22 870D AA48 2E46 > uid Mark Walker (<a href="http://marwalk.net" target="_blank">marwalk.net</a>) <<a href="mailto:mark@marwalk.net">mark@marwalk.net</a>> > uid Mark Walker (alternate address) <<a href="mailto:marwalk@gmail.com">marwalk@gmail.com</a>> > uid Mark Caldwell Walker (Earth Alien) > <<a href="mailto:marwalk@marwalk.com">marwalk@marwalk.com</a>> > sub 2048g/4421C0B1 2006-07-06 [expires: 2011-07-05] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkquwVIACgkQfCKHDapILkZTMQCghYPbrypxWZxGeOf96MzzsChg > WH4AoOXk3ZGsxxts7KO2z0OevASj5RL0 > =Z+Lf > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </div></div>Welcome aboard, Mark! Nice to have another ham among us (do we have a majority yet?). Please do join us on Wednesday evening and we'll get you hooked up with a mentor to point you in what we hope is the proper direction. --Eric <div><div></div> </div></blockquote></div> Mark, welcome aboard! --Rashadul GPG KEY: 5557BFAC Fingerprint=CFB7 CAEC 157A 308A F9CE CE00 3620 8084 5557 BFAC