About mem

A little about me

I am an aging software type, now involved in running an ISP.

Some current projects

MV Communications -- www.mv.com: The oldest ISP in NH (and one of the oldest anywhere), incorporated in 1991 (domain name registered in late 1987).
The DNSist -- www.dnsist.net: A sub-project of MV, to provide distributed secondary DNS service for ISPs. Primary goal is to answer MV's need, but set up to offer the same to other ISPs on a minimal cost-recovery basis.
mvmf -- www.mvmf.org: Intelligent and programmable mail delivery agent, with a scripting language wholly incorporating the SIEVE filtering language set out in RFC 3028 (and subsequent RFCs) inside of a C-like procedural language. Currently in use at MV, and currently in development of more advanced features intended to make it more attractive for other environments.

Older Projects

(There's a lot, and I'll get around to listing some, yep.)

A brief history of mem

1954: born in New Jersey, of all places;
thru 1963: lived in Washington State, Massachusetts, New York, Maine, finally landing in New Hampshire;
1966 - 1969: had an interesting time working summers at Camp Graylag in Pittsfield. This was a basketball camp co-owned and operated by Bob Cousy. We kitchen boys were treated very well;
1969-1976: various odd jobs... clerking; various photography-related ones including part-time photographer for the Concord Monitor; discovered computers, worked for the Office of Academic Computing at UNH;
1977: son Eric born;
1981-1995: A checkered career as a software contractor. Got ham radio and pilots license (both now unused);
1981: Wrote a BBS system; started it up on a CP/M system in Londonderry, NH.
1985: Started a UUCP hub on a Microport UNIX system (on a '286 IBMPC clone) in Litchfield, NH, after having kicked around on Usenet at Software Innovations since 1981 or so. Ported the BBS code to run under a login under the UNIX system;
1987: Registered mv.com (even though 'whois' says 1988);
1991: Incorporated MV Communications with partners;
1995: Became full-time employee at MV.

Claims to Fame

Very few. I am tickled by the fact that my birthday is noted in the calendar file distributed with many versions of UNIX these days.

I've Been Here in the US

I've lived in these states:

I've been to these states:
(There should be a solid line across the country here, since we drove across the country a couple of times when I was just a few years old. But I'm afraid I don't know what the route was.)

create your own visited states map