An introduction

So who are you?
My name is Ken Wilson. I was born in Southern New Jersey and now live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. My introduction to the world of computing was by way of my mothers Hewlett Packard 486 so many years ago. I read the DOS manual cover to cover, teaching myself all of the commands. I studied BASIC and Pascal in high school; Java, C++, ML and a bit of assembly in college. My introduction to the *nix world was as a lab consultant in the Computer Science department SPARC lab. Here is where I learned my way around a UNIX filesystem, here also was my first exposure to GNOME. I began almost immediately running Red Hat Linux on my personal computer, moved on from Red Hat to SuSE, and eventually onto Ubuntu (from whence there are no foreseeable reasons to move on again).

What's up with this blog?
I intend to use this blog as a place to keep track of some of the things I'm working on (primarily ubuntero.org, though I expect a lot of other general Ubuntu things and personal projects to appear here). I'll also use it to gather my thoughts and opinions on things that interest me. Hopefully you, the reader, will find what I have to say interesting or useful in some way.

Applications Places System?
My Desktop Environment of choice, GNOME, features by default a menu containing three options, Applications, Places, and System. I felt the name appropriate because it vaguely describes the planned content of this blog - the projects I'm working on (Applications), my various travels and experiences professionally and personally (Places), and the other random things that matter to me (System). It's a bit of a stretch, I know, but I also just like the name, and thats reason enough, is it not :).