B.S., Nautical Science, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
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Professional Interests
Mathematics education, applied mathematics, mathematical biology, GNU/Linux, LaTeX, Web technologies, and various programming languages.
Hobbies
Breaking computers, reading penguin stories to my monsters children.
DRM attacks your freedom at two levels. Its purpose is to attack your
freedom by restricting your use of your copies of published works. Its
means is to force you to use proprietary software, which means you don't
control what it does. When companies organize to design products to
restrict us, we have to organize to defeat them, >>>more
Sign the petition: iPad DRM is iBad for our freedoms
Today, Apple launched a computer that will never belong to its owner. Apple will use Digital
Restrictions Management (DRM) to gain total veto power over the applications you use and the media you
can view.
See the cover letter to Steve Jobs from
Defective by Design with 5000 signatures.
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION was October 24
Check out the photos of the worldwide events at www.350.org/.350.org is an international campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis--the solutions that science and justice demand.
The case against Microsoft and proprietary software
Juniors & Seniors take note
Portfolios: the Hidden Weapon of Job SeekingGoogle polishes Chrome into netbook OS
Google is releasing an operating system for laptops and desktops, in a direct challenge to Microsoft's money-making core business. READ MOREBoycott Blackboard, Inc.
for fabricating this ill-conceived and illegitimate patent against the education industry.Patents are granted for inventions. So, what did Blackboard invent anyway?
Good news for academics: Blackboard Loses on Appeal (This does not change the fact that Blackboard is against the ideals of academia).
