"And you must not turn aside, for then you would go after futile things which can not profit or deliver, because they are futile."
-- Samuel (1 Sam 12:21 NAS)

These are my projects.
Few of these receive the attention they need.

• Make a couple of small, but substantial, changes to the Internet.
  Encourage and foster the development of plain text protocols,
  especially those which embody strong encryption and strong
  authentication. Encourage "real client/server", which goes
  beyond the buzzword to mean strong interoperability between
  otherwise incompatible systems.
• Maybe stamp out spam in our lifetime?
• Linux from scratch, where possible.
  I use SuSE and like it. I've used RedHat.
  I would like to use Debian if I get some time.
  But the true value of Linux is that it is free, free as in unencumbered.
  So I build packages from source whenever possible.
  I ran it on a portable for several months before leaving Rice, and now am blessed to be on a Linux-specific team at BMC.
  Of course it's my desktop system! And we run it on most of the machines at La Casita.
• As much Tcl/Tk as I can get my hands into.
  Doing it on VM would add to the fun.
• Internet SENDFILE (aka UFT, aka SIFT), for which I
  received help from GLV and others on the (now defunct) SIFT-L mailing list.
  Complements HTTP by providing inverse function:
  as one can retrieve things anonymously with HTTP,
  so one can send things anonymously with UFT/SIFT.
• Internet TELL, aka MSP, Message Send Protocol.
  There are working implementations of this protocol for UNIX,
  VM/CMS, Pr1me, VAX/VMS, and MS-DOS (Windows).
• CMS TAR - released and useable, but needs work