J. Troy Young's Place

My humble home on the internet

A touch from the old school...

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Thanks for dropping by my humble home on the internet. This is a place where I share links to places I like, thoughts, inspirations and just things I find interesting.

On the left you'll see a June 2004 picture of me, Emily and Allyssa. I've been thinking of adding a photos page to share some others we've taken here and there in our travels and backyard adventures. I suppose I'll get around to it one of these days...

I wear many hats...

Most days during the week I wake up at 7:15AM and make a nice herbal tea to drink while Allyssa gets something to eat for breakfast then at 8:00 we're off to take her to school then I come back and work on my projects here at home until about 2 in the afternoon when I get ready so I can be at American Airlines by 3PM where I work as a Plant Maintenance Man until 11:30 at night. In between, when and where I can I work on websites and study programming languages for Open Source projects like Linux based or Web Applications, help people with computer problems, etc.

On Friday nights we usually go out or just rest at home after a long work week and on Saturdays we do family stuff, go camping sometimes and on every other Saturday evening we have our DFW Pantheons meeting. Sunday at 3PM I'm back at work at American Airlines and the week starts again.

October 1, 2007 Posted by Troy | Topics: Me, My Work, Family and Leisure Activities

Open source

Get Firefox

I'm a huge fan of all things Open Source, from the Ubuntu Linux OS I use to run my computer to the Firefox web browser I use to surf the net to the Bluefish and Quanta Plus web authoring systems I use to work on my websites. For low cost (usually no cost), high security, and NO VENDOR LOCK IN Open Source software is the best.

August 9, 2006 Posted by Troy | Topics: Open Source, Get Firefox and Why.