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[edit] Welcome to Jeff's Home Page

You've either found my page through some bizarre accident or a curiosity about me. Well my name is Jeff, but some people know me online as "bovine" or sometimes just "cow". I have been living in Austin, Texas for about 6 years now. In early 2005 I bought my first house, known as the cowhouse, which I share with one other housemate.

I'm very passionate about technology and computers, and am always excited by new scientific innovations. I have been programming for more than 21 years, which started with the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A about when I was in the third-grade. Then I tinkered briefly with 386 assembly demo programming and game programming. While in college, I started pursuing simultaneous interests in distributed computing and computer security by helping to start distributed.net. I also did some research on network security intrusion detection, and implemented the software restriction policy security feature that became available in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. You might also want to check out some of the programming projects I have worked on.

I am a science-fiction fan and an advocate of space-exploration. Only by pushing our understanding of physics and technology will our society make the next leap in evolution. I look forward to space missions that will some day rival what is depicted by Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Asimov, and countless others. Divert auxiliary power from the dilithium reaction chambers, vent the yuddom exhaust manifolds, and rotate the shield harmonics!

Cows are cool! They're among one of the most versatile domesticated animals around today. Everyone should be sure to thank the next cow that they meet. I have a small collection of various pictures of cows that I've collected from around the web and other places.

My day job allows me to work as a computer software architect for a software company called United Devices, which sells commercial enterprise software that uses the techniques of "distributed computing" and "application virtualization" to turning existing corporate computers into a supercomputer.