The Small Wave.

author:

Tom (Email me.)

Tech blogging for the fun of it.

miscellany:

Technical background spans 30 years including operations, IT, consulting, training, software implementation and support. I’ve worked for numerous firms, large and small.

I began in computers on an IBM 1401 (I’m not that old, my employer owned these). That experience is best summed up in what I’d say years later when teaching software workshops: “To truly appreciate an Operating System you have to have been one.”

Along with mainframes I worked with systems of every flavor from the mid-80s on. Of course PCs, Macs, and the major UNIX players, but also minicomputers like the AS/400. Along the way I’ve been a Network Administrator, a Lotus Notes Administrator, and all-around “IT guy”.

Numerous jobs in software implementation, consulting and support across large organizations provided practical, “real world” experience. This varied technical background provides a wide variety of application, systems, and business experience.

interests:

Technology; personal computing; operating systems; software; hardware; music; photography; and sundry other topics.

hardware:

At work I’m Windows- and UNIX-based, but at home I’m back in the Mac fold after being gone for many years, retiring my HP and Gateway laptops in the process.

I’ve written about my 24-inch iMac 2.8GHz, my more recent MacBook 2.2GHz, and my latest acquisitions: a Time Capsule 500GB and Airport Express. There are also two iPhones and four iPods in the house.

Excepting three iPods, all Apple hardware was acquired since July, 2007.