Tim Chambers

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I'm Tim Chambers, a.k.a. tbc. If you google me you'll see that there is also poetry by Tim Chambers in the top search results, but my poetry is different from the netpoets.com Tim Chambers or, for that matter, any of the Tim Chambers poets at poetry.com. Googling 1E4AF729D5CEFFD0 returns content unique to me.
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Freedom comes with responsibility!
Choosing to have no part of pornography, nude pictures, or erotic material.

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I currently blog at livejournal.com (RSS), but I'm publicizing the link as a PURL: purl.org/net/tbc/blog. I recommend you read "How I Blog." The following section highlights some of my more recent pieces. Also note that I often add brief blog entries at tbc.stumbleupon.com, I share the music I'm listening to at last.fm, and I use LibraryThing to share the list of my favorite books.

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My Stories My Blog My Diary www.flickr.com

The 'Privacy' Jihad (9 Apr 04)
Ben Mezrich: the telling of a true story (5 Feb 04)
Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time (1 Apr 03)
Search for Extraterrestrial Life Intensifies (12 Mar 03)
Professor Coerces Students to Lobby (11 Mar 03)
Visions of computers of the future (23 Feb 03)
Freedom on Campus Narrowly Defined (20 Sep 02)
Whither Tech Future? (19 Aug 02)
The Absolute Best Books to Read (30 Jun 02)
reflections on suffering (13 Apr)
best onion rings I've ever had (22 Mar)
Skype using Ubuntu 7.10 on nc2400 (27 Nov 07)
x11vnc and x2vnc (3 Oct 07)
Who are the real copyright pirates? (24 Sep 07)
A stream of consciousness experience on the Web (17 June 07)
Major kudos to Mozilla Firefox (8 June 07)
GNOME disappointment (31 May 07)
What video buffering means to you (31 Mar 07)
Nostalgia (26 Mar 07)
Perl hack to convert binary to ASCII (14 Sep 06)
An Open Letter to Newt Gingrich: We're Fighting WW IV, not WW III (Sep 10 06)
Hickory House Ribs Really Are the Best Ribs in Colorado (4 Sep 06)
E-mail is not an instant messaging tool (22 Apr 06)
Understanding Poverty (19 Sep 05)
Advice to Teenagers (17 Apr 05)
I wouldn't want to be killed like that. (16 Apr 05)
Shove Chapel Dedication (27 Feb 05)
Truly Powerful Principles of Prayer (1 Nov 04) Aliens Could Use Wikipedia to Conquer Earth (22 Jul 05)
A Big Boy's Blouse (feminist humanist social worker) (5 Jun 05)
Microsoft, Jews, and Nazis (10 Jun 04)
irobotnow.com is LAME (typical Hollywood fluff) (20 Apr 04)
Who's a Big Girl's Blouse? (1 Apr 04)
Digital Camera For Sale (30 Oct 03) -- the best visual humor I've run across in quite a while

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Words that describe me are: Christian, Anglican/Episcopalian, Promise Keeper, Colorado native, MIT alumnus, Hewlett-Packard round-tripper, Agilent Technologies charter employee and alumnus, software engineer, cancer survivor, and independent journalist.
My personal biography is brief. My professional page is brief; my professional biography isn't so brief. I've done a little traveling.
If you need to communicate with me privately, use my PGP key. (For more information about privacy, see www.gnupg.org.)

I'm a huge fan of Wiki webs, especially Citizendium. As a user at Wikipedia I have made many contributions. Not so many contributions at Citizendium, but I prefer it to Wikipedia due to its superior model for governance. I'm also warming up to Wikitravel.

prayers said before meals (Tenth Edition)

bedtime prayers (Fifth Edition) -- including prayers suitable for children

favorite news sites

people I know who blog

I-25 Traffic Cams

the Official Microflaccid Web Site

morse code in three convenient formats

original welcome message

The text ads in this section sometimes represent my commercial interests. Right now, they're just plugs for a few pages of my own choosing.

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Car-Pak #97-7726 For Sale: clips for the rear quarter panel molding of a 1997 Chrysler Town & Country minivan

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Personal Information	Permanent Features
Words that describe me are: Christian, Anglican/Episcopalian, Promise Keeper, Colorado native, MIT alumnus, Hewlett-Packard round-tripper, Agilent Technologies charter employee and alumnus, software engineer, cancer survivor, and independent journalist. My personal biography is brief. My professional page is brief; my professional biography isn't so brief. I've done a little traveling. If you need to communicate with me privately, use my PGP key. (For more information about privacy, see www.gnupg.org.)	I'm a huge fan of Wiki webs, especially Citizendium. As a user at Wikipedia I have made many contributions. Not so many contributions at Citizendium, but I prefer it to Wikipedia due to its superior model for governance. I'm also warming up to Wikitravel. prayers said before meals (Tenth Edition) bedtime prayers (Fifth Edition) -- including prayers suitable for children favorite news sites people I know who blog I-25 Traffic Cams the Official Microflaccid Web Site morse code in three convenient formats original welcome message

This page holds the dubious distinction of being the #1 result when you google prosaic alumnus. Vocabulary does matter.

This site is maintained with considerable help from Linux, Cygwin, GNU Emacs, Mozilla, and CSS (mine | Wikipedia).
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Last Updated: 13 April 2008
Document Author: Tim Chambers, timc+web@divide.net, http://alum.mit.edu/www/tbc 1E4AF729D5CEFFD0.