News...

July 5, 2007. All future updates will be posted to my Blog,. http://blog.Kevitivity.com.

March 17, 2007. For more details regarding Channel 4's documentary entitled "The Great Global Warming Swindle" please see my links page.

October 21, 2006. Here are some "close up" photos of the Black Pearl (from Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean). We spotted her while sailing out of San Pedro Harbor back in August. Once I posted them to my Flickr page they were all ove the place so I might as well post them here too.

August 7, 2006. Wow, two years on Flickr.

August 29, 2004. I'm officially a "Switcher"... Needed a laptop so I went out and got an Apple PowerBook G4 (15inch, 1.5GHz) a few months ago. WOW! Half the speed of the fastest PC job, but more sex appeal than anything else out there, Unix based OS and all. If it weren't for games, I would ditch my P4 3.2 GHz XP box for good. I now recommend Macs to all of my friends and family. No viruses, no browser hijacks, no spy-ware...

The last time I used a Mac was 10 years ago (OS 7), when I was developing web sites. Sure, the interface was clean, but the whole experience left a lot to be desired. The first Pentium machines were out at that time as well, and Apple just couldn't compete speed wise, but speed isn't everything!.

If you're not a gamer, YOU SHOULD BE ON A MAC!

June 2003. House of Kevin is open! Click here to enhance your life in magical ways.

June 2002. The stanchfield.com pages are back on line! Thanks to the Wayback Machine, where we salvaged the lost stanchfield.com html and images from.

On Aug. 3, 2000 I accepted a new job at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) here in beautiful Pasadena. I'm a Unix System Administrator for a few groups in the Communications Systems and Research Section. I'm the sole admin of over 80 Solaris and Linux machines, across 5 separate networks, including a small network of linux and Sun boxes in the pedestal of the largest deep space radar telescope at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex. The Linux machines hum happily away, deep in the barren Mojave desert, helping to produce images of Mars and other celestial bodies.

My previous employer was Cogent Software, Inc, now called PCNalert.com. Don't ask me what they did over there, I never quite figured it out. PCNalert.com is now under new management. I started work for Cogent Software, Inc. back in late 95 as a "PC Guru", doing tech-support for Internet services like dial-up access and e-mail. Anyone remember Trumpet Winsock?

When I left, I was PCNalert.com's System Administrator, maintaining a small network of Unix hosts, mostly Sun but a few Linux servers as well. It was a dream job, plenty of challenges and always something new to learn. I got to play with all kinds of cool things, like old Sun Sparc Stations, NetApp RAID arrays, Sun Enterprise servers, and of course Linux! By the way, some of those Suns, like Sparc20s/10s, are real work horses. I still use a few to to this day (2/23/07) as NIS/Sendmail/POP servers.

I am a Linux fanatic... I truly believe that Linux is one of the most significant contributions to modern computing we have ever seen.