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Jeff's Pirate Cove Webcam, C. 1430 Guam Time, Thursday, October 31, 2007

Guam AKA: Guâhan. It is 1340 Thursday afternoon there,

Wind	from the NNE (030 degrees) at 9 MPH (8 KT)
Visibility	10 mile(s)
Sky conditions	partly cloudy
Temperature	88.0 F (31.1 C)
Heat index	94.6 F (34.8 C)
Dew Point	72.0 F (22.2 C)
Relative Humidity	59%
Pressure (altimeter)	29.78 in. Hg (1008 hPa)
Pressure tendency	0.09 inches (2.9 hPa) lower than three hours ago

As you can see from above, it can't get any better. Sunny, without being harsh. A nice breeze swishing through the tropical forests (boonies, we used to call them), not too humid and the forecast calls for more of the same.

My eyes are welling up with tears, remembering my days there. Life wasn't all that great, but it was still good. In spite of the bullies and persecution I went through, I still miss it. The way the air smelled just before the rain fell. The way you had to keep one eye on the trees when walking through the boonies, to watch out for falling fruit and coconuts. I even miss the bullies and the school they harassed me in. It was there that I had my greatest adventures in life, with the exception of a trip to NY in 1992, and my baptism in 1988. It was there that I became a hacker, a traveler, a minister, a protector, a scholar and a man. It was there that I first fell in love.

Don't get me wrong, I love Washington and consider it my home too. I am just feeling homesick for Guam right now. Partly because of how lousy my life has been the last five years. My extended family is migrating back there, my dad is dead, I'm treated like a nobody here, but in Guam the name Taitano evokes respect. and a stateside educated Taitano would be unstoppable.

I am a Vagabond at heart, though; and I will need to travel frequently. But what better place to be a Stationary Vagabond than the hub of the Pacific! Travel is imminent. And, what better excuse to go there than to visit my tea suppliers and visa versa?

I'll have to wait till I graduate to move over there, though. I'll probably visit next summer though.

Uncle Sam's a Pickpocket.

Blasted Post Office, they apparently don't nickel and dime you anymore, they go straight for the jugular. regular snail mail is 50ct, right? Well, try to overnight a single sheet FAFSA and it jumps straight to $20! Whatta rip!

Oh well. At least I'm making progress. It's my fault I'm having trouble this time; I forgot to file before I went to AK. When I got back, I got distracted by trying to start my website and thought I would pay for the first quarter with the $ I made fishing. I ran out of both money and time and now have to jump through a few hoops in order to get registered for class. Hmmph. Been there, done that. Will likely do it again. :-(

So anyway, I am working on a story about the free software movement. It's an allegorical fantasy that starts with Linus joining the FSF He and his friend, a Digital named Pea Sea start on a quest to free her from a pair of shackles called License Restrictions that Bind her to the will of the Dark Lord of the world of Corporate named Stockholder Profit and that of his minions who include the powerful Unix the Ancient, who is controlled by the sinister King Att, and Microsoft the Devious who is bent on world domination through the Digitals using the LRs. After freeing Pea, using a Key he calls Freax, then Linux at the persuasion of his friends, Linus, Pea and the fellow Wizard Squires who helped Linus make the key decide to join the FSF.

The Rusty Hacker

Welcome to my Blog! This is the first post. I'm not sure what to say; never done anything like this before.

There was a time when I knew more about computers than I did about myself. Then I left High School. I was strongly encouraged to get a "responsible job". This quest, along with the onset of certain nervous disorders (as if ADD wasn't enough), kept me from keeping up with my passions. I tried a correspondence course from NRI on PC repair, but often found myself too tired, buisy or distracted to keep up with my studies. Now I find myself asking for help just to add a link to a forum post. {=``{ *sniff*

Hmmm... Now that I've found some thing to write about, I might as well keep going.

Lately, though, I've started to catch up. I'm relearning the ways of the Digital Force; it's proving easier than I thought it would be, but I still have a ways to go. My computer has been my biggest source of knowledge and other hackers, my tutors. I've left my "lab" unlocked at times to see if any crackers enter. It can be both entertaining and educational to see what the little morons will do, if given the chance. }:-} I take the fact that none have been able to cause more than a hang on my computer as proof that I'm coming along. In fact, the most damage that's been done to my PC has been done by myself. The worst that any cracker has ever been able to do is to alter my registry to load some very bad bookmarks and to force my computer to put some disgusting site as home in my browser. That was five years ago. ;-D

Now I've finally given up on "careers" (as if that kind of job security has ever existed), went gillnetting in Alaska, am trying to start school in Mechtronics, and am building a website. My webhost has been giving me a headache, but, the site should be ready to publish later this week. Next month, I'm starting in on teaching myself HTML, Linux Kernel, C++, French, Spanish, AmSLan and Italian. Right now, I am getting my resources together and preparing to participate in NaNoWriMo.

Well, that's it for now. Bye.