about the author

Hi, I'm Tony and I live here in North Carolina with my wife and two boys. My parents are Jamaican but I was born in Luton, England. I grew up in Brooklyn, NYC and I'm a Christian and a diehard New York Yankees and Philadelphia Eagles fan.

Like many northerners, we're transplants, part of the great African-American migration back to the south. While I personally miss the amenities and cultural aspects of a big city, the Triangle area does provide for a great place to raise a family. If I could only convince the Mrs. to try out the Atlanta area.

I attended the University of Maryland, University College at Spangdahlem AFB campus in Germany while serving in the military and my major is in Computer Science with a minors in Mathematics. My hobbies are computer technology, especially Linux, and I'm an on again, off again amateur photographer. You can view my professional resume in PDF format here.

about this site

This site is now powered by server virtualization, specifically VMware Server. This virtual server is running Fedora Core 4 and is a typical LAMP platform (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP-Python-Perl) The "archives", which is now in the terabytes, is hosted on a separate dual Pentium 300MHz, 512MB ram machine with a combination of hardware and software raid on LVM2 and ReiserFS. The media and FTP archives are served via NFS read-only exports to a virtual server through my DMZ. And yes, I'm providing way too much information about this.

Documentation

Located in the docs area is a compilation of html books for technology junkies and IT professionals alike. The majority of the content is on Linux and Storage Networking. You'll need an account to access the online docs. If you need access, you know how to contact me. Look for more IT related publications in the future such as operational frameworks guidelines and technology roadmaps.

 Multimedia

Want streaming audio and video? Check out the multimedia archives. For MP3 streaming, you'll need a capable player such as XMMS for Linux or Winamp for Windows. MP3 streaming is made available from http://www.kplaylist.com. For licensing reasons, please note that you cannot download any of my ripped CDs but you can share in the rich joys of music. If you really enjoy an artist, please support their music by purchasing it and if possible, always purchase directly from the artist.

 The Gallery

The photo gallery is powered by the Gallery app from http://gallery.sourceforge.net. Film prints are scanned in using a Cannon LiDE 30 scanner and taken with my Minolta Maxim 5000i. My Fuji Finepix 2600 digital is ok for quick outdoor snapshots, but until I can get a digital SLR, my important pictures will still be done with my 5000i.

The photo on the homepage. It's a photo of Jordan and was taken on October 17th 2004 in Myrtle Beach, SC. with the Fuji. It was actually a mis-photo as the shudder speed on the Finepix is very slow, and he was running very fast. So I cropped off about 30% from the bottom and converted it to a black and white photo.