The author of this site is a programming consultant (C, C++, etc.), Linux system administrator, freelance writer, and German-to-English technical translator available on a contract basis.

Credentials include game and file encryption software, publication of a file security program in ELECTRONIC DESIGN, inclusion in the C USERS GROUP collection, and writing both the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide * and the Software Building HOWTO ** for the Linux Documentation Project. The Bureau of Export Administration and the National Security Agency considered his cruft encryption utility too dangerous for export (which is why it was not available for distribution for over a year). His article, "Adding a Second IDE Hard Drive", appeared in the March, 1999 issue of the Linux Gazette. His Soundex script appeared in the July, 2002 issue of Unix Review, and an introduction to sed scripting appeared in the June, 2003 issue. In matters of system security, he has been certified as ultraparanoid by Laura Wonnacott of Infoworld in her August 16, 1999 Test Center Rx column.

* Selected as a reference document for a Linux certification study guide. It is equivalent to a 800-page book.
** In print in the Linux Systems Labs two-volume compendium, Linux: The Complete Reference, 7th ed..

Available for writing and documentation projects (fee negotiable).


My first published technical article



"Letters To The Editor"

InfoWorld, 09/17/01
Linux Journal, August 2000
Linux Journal, March 2001
InformationWeek, 02/26/01
Newsweek, 11/27/00
eWeek, 10/22/00
eWeek, 08/21/00
Publish, October 1999
Application Development Trends, June 1999
Intelligent Enterprise, 01/05/99
Application Development Trends, January 1999
Linux Journal, July 1998
Publish, January 1998
Coin World, 12/15/97
Publish, October 1997
LAN Times, 08/18/97
Mother Earth News, January 1996







Contact info:
thegrendel@theriver.com

In case you're wondering just how ugly I am in "real life"...

other humans have looked askance upon this page.

Acknowledgements

This page was "developed" using no "web authoring" tools. It was written in "native mode" under Linux, using vim, xv, and Mozilla/Galeon®.

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Legal Stuff:

Permission has been obtained for any copyrighted material used in these pages.

Scrabble and OSPD are registered trademarks of the Milton Bradley, Co., Inc.

WORDY and WAK are not trademarks.

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In Appreciation

We would like to express our thanks to The River Internet Access Co. and Midvale Telephone for bringing Net access to rural communities in the southwest. In the true spirit of American enterprise, these people are demonstrating that it is possible to make a profit while performing a public service.

Support Linux in its fight for survival against the unholy Microsoft-SCO Group Alliance.


Awards

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The Scrabble®-info link from this site
was featured in the December 1-7, 1996 edition of
That's Useful, This Is Cool.

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The electrons on this website are 100% recycled post-consumer content.

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