If I were in your shoes, and I were reading this, my very first question would be:

What is this, the trillionth blog on the Internet? Who the heck are you, and why should I read these rants and ramblings?

Allow me to elucidate, dear reader. My name is Jamie Eubanks, and I have 30 years (and counting) of IT experience developing software, working with PCs and servers, networking, databases, web servers and content management systems, analyzing customer needs, providing support, training... The list goes on.

But that only covers my career. Outside of work I also have a great interest in technology in general: Photography, audio/video, home theater, mobile phones and tablets, and all kinds of gadgets. I'm fascinated by cosmology, astronomy, biology, astrobiology, planetary exploration, and science in general. I guess you might sum me up by saying

5,000 years ago, this guy would have been a completely useless sack of skin!

Touche. I guess I should let you know too that I have a great interest in the outdoors. I was raised with a deep appreciation of the natural world, and I love to camp and hike. My ideal vacation would be to explore a national park, or snorkel on a tucked away reef in the tropics. I like to think that I am well rounded. A renaissance man, if you will.

Hey, this isn't a dating profile, buddy, and you still haven't answered why I should read this.

Very true, so let me get to the point. I have life experience. My brain is stuffed, perhaps overstuffed with capital-S Stuff. Stuff that may be of interest to others. Stuff that you might find useful, or helpful, or perhaps even essential to your very being, if you stumble across it. To me, it's always seemed that blogging was an exercise in boasting and self aggrandizement. A way to cry out for attention and external validation. But I've finally realized that it doesn't have to be about that. I can write blog posts without self-promotion; without egotism; without link baiting and SEO and all the other things that turned me off to blogging and kept me from running my own web site, even though I've been on the Internet since 1986. Oh yeah, I was on the 'net long before the World Wide Web was even a gleam in Mark Andreasen's eye.

So that's my proposition. I write stuff, and you read it (or not). Knowledge is power, yadda yadda yadda. So if you happen to find something helpful and/or interesting here, then by all means, keep it to yourself.