Welcome to 3111skyline
There are a great number of seemingly diverse interests captured here. A few of the more notable ones are:
- The Rankin family Gallery, a collaborative effort, with a growing number of photos of this unruly family of engineers, lawyers, pharmacists, and biologists and their unruly bunches of someday to be -- well, whatever they turn out to be…
Sports and activities keep the calendar continually full with swimming, gymnastics, football and ballet. The last gymnastics event, a Texas UGA event in Humble Texas was held August 29, 2009 for District 5 gymnasts. See: Sydney's Gymnastics. This was Sydney's first Texas UGA meet. Not only did Sydney qualify for State, she medaled in 3 out of 4 events and all-around (vault, bars and beam). It was truely amazing to watch that young lady perform and see the benefit of the hard work and long hours she had put into training all come shining through. She has a good "game-face" too. Her team, The East Texas Twisters, won the age-group as well out of the several other teams that competed. Go BearBear!
Gymnastics is only one of the sports that are currenly being pursued by the kiddos. Z has done a fantastic job with his swimming and is now playing football at the same as well. We will see how he likes the rough and tumble of football compared to a soft comfortable swimming pool. Z's first football game will be September 19th, 2009. Jordan is brining up the rear with dance and gymnastics. She's a big girl now and it shows. It will be a race between all three to see who can bring home the most medals (although I don't think anyone will ever top the seven foot tall trophy Z won in a karate meet in Houston.- Linux System, Server and Desktop topics, including howtos for many of the common, and not so common, questions promoting dedication to open-source freedoms. If you are unfamiliar with open-source software, you are missing out on the most exciting developments in the history of computing. Learn more and you will do more, in less time, while spending less money, to get software of much higher quality and with much greater capabilities.
- Law and politics are other topics found lurking here showing some of the more notable current and past endeavors that hopefully help bring understanding to some of the truly anti-democratic changes that have occurred in Texas and in the U.S. from the time George Bush won the governorship in Texas. There were no tears shed at the inauguration when Obama took over the reins. January 20, 2009, signaled a breath of fresh air, a change. Nine months into the fray the man has done well with what he inherited, the market is up over 35%, but lingering unemployment reminds us that the skies have not completely cleared.
- However, the economic problems we are dealing with as a nation were not created in 70 days, nor can we expect them to be solved in the first 70 days of the administration. However, I expect to see firm hand on the purse strings and a middle-finger for any foreign financial institution that thinks they're entitled to our tax dollars.
- There are many more interesting tidbits found here, or soon to be found here. Explore and have fun. Excepting the family photos, and providing for any inadvertent disclosure of personal or privileged information, everything else found here is licensed under GPL3, including the structure of the web site itself. Feel free to copy, distribute or use anything you find here unless, of course, it looks like a legal document or something that shouldn't be in the public domain. In that event, just email me and let me know content you have questions about and I'll be happy to confirm the propriety of the content.
Currently Perpetually Under Construction -- Reality has shown that moving all information to the new site template will be an ongoing effort and not something that can be done as a weekend project. But progress none the less.
The old site for 3111skyline.com had served it purpose and had reached the end of life. So the site is getting a face-lift to provide a platform to make useful information available in some form other than my notes stuck in a directory somewhere. The site is served by two machines running the Apache2 webserver on openSuSE 10.3 and 11.0. As the site template is still undergoing tweaks and the content is still being moved over, if you are unable to find something -- don't panic, just let me know and I'll get the content up as quickly as I can.
Linux & Law Content - Now Delivered Compressed
Note: mod_deflate has been activated for all Linux and law related content. If you experience problem browsing the site, please let me know. All precations have been taken to insure that browsers that don't support compression Mozilla/Netscape 4.0[678] don't receive gzipped content.
Site License Governing Copyright & Content -- GPL2
Under the "Site Information" menu and at the bottom of the page, you will find the license that governs site content usage. In summary, all publicly accessible content and the web site layout itself is all released under the GPL2, subject to the Addendum included in the copyright. If you have visited this site before, you may notice that this site has been re-licensed under GPL2 instead of GPL3. GPL3, unfortunately, strays from the true commitment to open-source by condoning and potentially injecting protection of DRM and other 3rd party software that may be comingled or included in true open-source projects. In our commitment to true open-source software, we could no longer support that prospect and accordingly re-licensed our site under GPL2 and made this cautionary statement available for others to consider.
Feedback Wanted
Our plan is to make steady progress in getting both new and reformatted old content back up in the near future. If you see content here you like, let us know. If you see content here you don't like, also let us know. That's the only way we have of making our good better and our bad, good. <drankinatty> <at> <suddenlinkmail> <dot> <com> Thanks.
