Jim Moy

Jimmoy.com runs on a PII/266 now, an upgrade in speed from the old machine. Got it on eBay for $28, which is an amusing story in itself. Everything’s a little faster, MovableType rebuilds pages quicker, the photo album makes thumbnails a bit snappier, so that’s nice.

Very busy at work. About to release something pretty nice. Maybe some more updates once that happens.

Sometimes it’s amusing to see the effect of my gateway going down for a period of time (but not too long). Here’s an image that MRTG continuously generates for me, measuring my 802.11b signal strength. Yup, I took it down when I went to bed and back up when I staggered into the basement in the morning to turn it back on and see if the upstream network outage was over…

Updated to MovableType 2.0. Painless upgrade, went just like the instructions said. Time to make the donation.

I’m a software engineer and piano technician in Fort Collins, Colorado. I’ve had a nomadic existence in the software industry which you might be able to tell from my resume.

My old home page at http://www.verinet.com/~jbm and http://www.frii.com/~jbm (after Front Range Internet bought Verinet) had some stuff that stayed relatively static, mostly related to some old BeOS development I did. I’m pulling that stuff into an entry linked from the main page to let Movable Type archive it.

My brother Tom has a web page.

My Dad likes to keep a running journal of the books he’s read. Not as literary commentary, but as reminders to himself! Which may sound funny, but you know, I couldn’t tell you the plot of half the books sitting on my bookshelf…

I paddle a kayak around for exercise, originally because my knees are shot, but it’s actually much more pleasant than the jogging/biking I was doing before. But during 2009, I took up barefoot running, and can now run even with my messed up knees!

I play classical music on my restored Chickering & Sons grand piano. I also poke about on my Chapman Stick. Learning has gone slowly. It’s an interesting instrument, mine’s a 10-String XG, tuned Deep Baritone Melody because I love the low range overlapped with the left hand, and the ACTV-2 goes down real smooth.

Dan Yee “doing the bowl” at one of his birthday parties.

Chris Brooks wearing a tie. Honest.

My Father in law is a retired Professor of Geology at the University of Florida.

Send me email at web@jimmoy.com

Jimmoy.com switches to Movable Type. Should make it easier to update things. This is also now hosted internally!