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This article appeared in today’s Lakeland newspaper. I have an archive copy at http://tinyurl.com/2rlgbt

Sadly I have to report a death in the family this weekend. My brother in law’s wife died giving birth yesterday morning (on his birthday and Fathers Day no less) to twin girls. The girls are ok. But now I have a grieving father of four girls with no mother. They live about 70 miles from here. My wife is there now “managing” things with a posse of family coming down as I write this. I am here today because frankly this nothing I can do there right now having a family myself to watch over but as the week progresses she will need me more and more. I don’t have funeral arrangements yet. Anyway I will be very pre-occupied and may be slow to getting to requests or responding to emails. I ask your indulgence and prayers through this very difficult time (this is very close family for us and I am devastated frankly).

I just realized I have not posted pics of my new office. Well OK it’s not that new. I have been here since April 1. Link to pictures http://gallery.kevininscoe.com/myoffice.

This was photographed on my way to the hospital (it’s a long story and also why I was sweating like a pig) in June of 2006. Anyway shortly thereafter (while I was in the hospital) the article appeared in the Orlando Sentinel (none of the nurses read the paper I guess - no one noticed) and then later the article appeared in the Roanoke Times. Here is a link to a PDF: http://kevininscoe.com/pub/Its_good_to_be_a_geek.pdf

“Kevin Inscoe, a Web site manager and administrator from Deltona, Fla., considers himself “a geek of all trades.” His interests range from amateur radio to weather and electronics, and, of course, computers. Inscoe is one of the region’s premier geeks, having assembled an online gathering place for his ilk called Central Florida Geeks (cfgeeks.org). On the site’s message board, participants chat about electronics, trends and sometimes news items that “we think are sufficiently geeky.” Inscoe encourages closet geeks to be true to themselves. “Geek people are the inventors, the creators,” Inscoe says. “They fix things, keep things going.”

.. is syndicate one’s reviews. I found some reviewers who are very succinct and detailed and I love reading their reviews (I have even bought stuff or added it to my wish list because of them). I am trying to find a way to mention this to Jeff Bezos.

http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/

For instance I found a book I was going to buy at UCF library…

http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/19325361

Now I don’t have to buy it.

Also check out…

http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookup.html

I have a list I created a year ago called xbay. If your into electronics, ham radio or other geeks thinks consider subscribing.