Accomplishments:

In 2001 I published my first book, "The Practice of System and Network Administration" with Christine Hogan. A 2-year project that nearly broke me. It was more writing than I did in highschool and college combined. We should have split it into two volumes.
I'm a co-founder of BiZone (previously BiNet/NJ) which started in 1991 and still exists today.
I'm a co-founder of the Tri State Bisexual Conference, which has continued to have an (almost) yearly conferences for 5 years.
I completed a successful 7-year career at Bell Labs, surviving many layoffs, reorganizations, and turmoil, after making many friends and accomplishing basically everything I set out to do.
In 1998 the New Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition awarded me their "Honor" achievement award for my activism.
In 1991 I graduated college with a B.A. in Computer Science. I'm not a good student, so graduating was a major victory for me.
In 1995 AT&T's LEAGUE (Lesbian and Gay United Employees) organization awarded him their 1995 LEAGUE Community Involvement Award (Political).
In 1996 I won a Netscape coffee mug by being on the the first 50 people to report a bug in Netscape 2.0beta. Here is proof.
I've published in peer-reviewed 7 papers at system administration conferences conferences, twice I've had 2 papers at the same conference. I've been an invited speaker twice, both times I also had a paper at the conference.
I'm not dead yet. (for some reason I always feel that this is a worthwhile accomplishment to mention)

My contributions to the internet:

I've been on the internet since Fall 1987 and was soon publishing articles in places like BitNews (BITNET News) that advocated internet access for undergraduates... a radical view at the time.
Back then the internet was a lot smaller and a lot more friendly. We were a community and everyone put in as much as they got out. I still believe in the ideals of open systems, open protocols and sharing information to maket the world better. Let's remember the old saying, "Give freely since freely you have been given."
I helped with the second comp.sys.amiga reorganization and performed the statical analysis of the (then) current traffic which lead to the selection of the names. Since then, other newsgroup reorganizations have used the nomenclature that I created including ".advocacy" and ".programmer".
I wrote the "tpage" program which many sysadmins use so that their Unix system can page them. I highly recommend people use qpage instead, as it is better and it is being actively maintained.
I used to write the INN FAQ and helped hundreds of people get Netnews operating on their machine.
In 1993 I maintained on-line information about the March On Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Rights and Liberation. It was gratifying to see many people walking around D.C. with a printout of my FAQ.
In 1994 I did the same thing for Stonewall 25
I am a beta tester and document idiot-proofer for BIND, the daemon on Unix systems that 99% of the internet uses for DNS (domain name services). I wrote the INSTALL file in the current distribution.
I am a proofreader for RFCs related to Netnews and Usenet, especially NNTP and son-of-RFC1036.

It should be no suprise that I support the Blue Ribbon Campaign against the CDA and internet censorship.
I also support the work of certain companies that push the envelope of internet technology but maintain the ideals of open systems such as First Virtual and ClariNews. This used to be a much bigger deal than it is today.

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