OK, kiddies, gather round. Let me pontificate loftily standing upon my bubbly box of soap, in order to loudly proclaim that information is king (or queen if that is your perspective). Why is information so important? The reason is simple! The more information we have (at hand, it doesn’t have to be memorized, it can be in a book or anything readily available), the more we know. The more we know, the more we can do! The more we can do, the richer we become. Not just in dollars and cents but in self-reliance, survival and practical sense. Take that information that you know, and add it to what your friend knows and now you both know even more. Take that and share it with what many other people you know and oh my goodness! We have a revolution on our hands, a real live revelation revolution springing up. It is natural that folks will still have their areas of expertise, but all of that shared knowledge is only going to help us out. More people can then do more things, you have more people to help when one thing gets really busy and backlogged, like when everyone has generator problems during an ice storm. Would you rather have 1 person trying to fix all those 100 or so broken gennies, or 2 or maybe 4 or 5 or even 10. Do you see where I am going with this?
What I just wrote about above is the sole reason I started this site. I had lots of information that I wanted to share with folk, anyone who could benefit from it. I have been working with computers and related “stuff” for over 20 years now, and whether it was trying to pass along some basic info to keep Grandma safe while checking her email, or sharing the intimate technical details of setting up SVM software RAID on Solaris UNIX servers, I felt like I had information that would be worthwhile to others. So far I’d say it’s been a success, while I don’t share the popularity or traffic that Slashdot gets for example, I get quite a lot of visitors compared to your average website or blog, and I do get some email now and then from people thanking me for the site or telling me that they found help with their problem they were trying to fix, and that makes all of the work and effort that I put into this site worthwhile.
If you have managed to read this far, you are probably now asking yourself what in the world I am going on about. Well, keeping what I have previously said in mind, I have decided to expand the site a bit. You see, when I started this site, it was only natural that I focus on IT related topics. However, I have experience with and work on much more than just IT stuff. In the past years I have been an electronics technician, why at one point I could repair the copper runs on a circuit board complete with new green (or amber or whatever) over coating so that one could hardly tell it had ever been broken in the first place. At one point I spent years as a mechanic, working on everything from air and electric tools to outdoor power equipment to diesel trucks and buses and damn near anything in between. In both of these cases I was lucky enough to work for business owners who were also masters in their field, I mean pure freakin’ geniuses at the technical work that they did. This allowed me to not only learn a great deal, but also develop some of the habits that I have now that make some people call me a perfectionist. I just say that if it’s got my name on it, I want to make damn sure I do it right. I am not saying that I am perfect or anything, I make mistakes just like anyone else, I just try really really hard to avoid them!
I could go on about other stuff I have done, some good learning experiences and some not so much. The point is that I have decided to start adding more information to this site as I get the oppotunity to do so. Because after all, information is king (or queen if that is your perspective), and if I can share something that helps someone, who cares if it’s about a computer or about a truck or maybe a CD player or who knows what. I don’t know everything but I know a little bit about a lot of things, and I love to learn. Maybe I feel it’s my duty or maybe my mission to give back and share that information. Worst case is that I waste some time and take up some extra binary real estate on my server and no one notices, or they notice and shake their head and mumble something about that crazy guy and his weird website that sounds like something out of Harry Potter. On the other hand, what we might call the best case, someone and maybe many someones come along from Google or however they get here and find something useful to them and helpful in solving a problem they were dealing with.
How is that, eh? How is that for a long winded rant about information! LOL I hope you enjoy this site and find something useful here, I have put a lot of time, energy and money into it because I believe in sharing information. If you have something you want to share, to add to the data archive, please by all means let me know about it via the contact page. I am unable to pay you for any information that you share, but I will make sure that you get full credit for it, in whatever format you like (i.e. your name, pen name, alias, whatever). That could be a good way for aspiring writers to easily get content published for reference later on when needing to provide examples of your work.
Many thanks to all of my readers and visitors that have stopped by and even taken the time to come back! (Cue the mysterious pipe organ) Enjoy!