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My name is Colin Powell, and I work and live in on the coast of Maine. If you've
ever seen Hunt for the Red October, you could almost see my house in the last
scene.

I was raised in the Chicago suburbs, but quality of life and family brought me
East. This website is a place to post occasional thoughts about software, open
source, and philosophy/agriculture. That's kind of all over the place, but I
don't suppose I have to apologize.

More than the new new thing, my love for technology was born out of the old
hacker mentality of finding a way to make that one thing do the thing it wasn't
designed to do. It's part of the reason I love open source and lean towards
older tech. Beyond that, I love sharing my passion for duct taping things
together with anyone patient enough to follow my ramblings.
