Long time web veteran from the trenches with a long history of successful self-employment and business ownership. Had a HP-UX UNIX account when I was 13, installed Redhat 5.2 on a 486 and built crazy huge CGI scripts in C and perl in the day. Now using Ruby, PHP, Python and sometimes even Java when I feel like being abused. I'm a pragmatist that enjoys FOSS and uses GNU/Linux for almost everything from tiny field data monitors, to enterprise HA clusters, to my desktop.