Insights Index

The Syroidmanor domain expired in September of 2004. What I have on offer here is my most recent mirror of Tom's "Insights" daynotes, up to June of 2003. I am putting this online because Tom learned a lot about computers and Linux and Life, and passed a lot of that along in these pages. I want to be sure of being able to find some of this material again, and Google will help me here. I hope you find this mirror to be of service. [Brian Bilbrey, 01-October-2004, Bowie, Maryland]

Welcome. If you're a regular, you probably already have your comfy slippers on and requisite cup of coffee in hand. For newcomers, there's an explanation of the philosophy behind these pages here. The links on the right will speed you off to my Current and Last week's entries.

For the technically minded, this site is hosted on an RS/6000 quad-processor box, which runs IBM's latest flavor of AIX (5.1 ML1); pages are served up by Apache (1.3.26) and usually crafted in Homesite.

The drill here is relatively simple. Posts are structured in a weekly format (Monday thru Sunday), and for the most part, updated on a daily basis. Tone is colored by my daily adventures as a writer, consultant, father, husband, and idealist. Content is diverse, and diverse. My scribbling typically leans toward the "art and mystics" of computing due to the fact I'm a technical writer (Outlook 2000 in a Nutshell, FrontPage 2000 in a Nutshell [Spring 2001], OpenLinux Secrets [Spring 2001], and several misc articles) but you're just as likely to see a rant on the weather or glowing praise of my daughter's coloring skills right alongside a discussion of how to enable FrontPage extensions under Unix. In other words, what you get is what you get.

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