Hello and welcome! I wrote this page for those of you who want to know a little more about me. Do you really want to be that bored? Let me start by defining who I am not.

I am not:

- A criminal. I do not break into other peoples computers or networks for personal gain

- A terrorist. I am a true, red-blooded American and I love and would defend this country.

- A member of law enforcement. Although I support our law enforcement agencies, there are many laws (a-hem... Patriot Act, etc.) that tear at the fabric of a free society and threaten our rights and liberties.

- A script kiddie. I do not

I am, however:

- A member of the Internet community. Some of you may ask, "What the hell does that mean?" I mean that I have been involved with various projects on the Internet and have been a contributor to the culture since 1995. This site has been hosted over the years at a number of various places such as The Floating Pancreas and Lower.org before coming to rest with it's own domain.

- A hacker. Before you start on me, I dislike calling myself that because there are a lot of people who claim to be hackers walking around. Anyway, a LOOONG time ago, I wrote a piece to describe my thoughts.

Why I'm A Hacker

"I am a hacker. I didn't label myself that, you did. At first I hesitated at calling myself one, for fear of ostracism from other hackers, but I quickly realized that that label was a compliment, not a condemnation. I have an innate curriosity that surpasses what you could ever begin to imagine. I love to figure out how things work, to solve problems, and to explore whatever I can get my hands on. I just want to learn, to experience all I can, but you are afraid of me, and label me criminal.

I am a hacker, and I am proud! For we are just like any other minority group of the past. We are feared, mislabled, and outcast because we are different and misunderstood. Yet, we exist as a whole without regard to background, social status, or other factors from which the rest of the world judges itself; and we grow stronger everyday in our quest for knowledge and fulfillment, striving ahead in a society which represses and despises us for our natural abilities, talents and inate curiosities.

From this, we take refuge in the company of our brothers along the outter limits of the norms that people, like you, have tried to impose upon us unjustifiably, and in doing so, you try in vain to intellectually enslave us and eventually turn us into carbon-copies of yourselves. Eventually, you will realize that you're fighting an invisible foe in a war which you cannot possibly win, where the future of humanity is at stake. As you and all that think like you have yet to discover, you are not opposing a single person, but a collective conscience of generational thinking that will govern the masses and promote decentralization as well as intellectual freedom for all."
 

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