Retired Newsroom Systems Director for The Oregonian newspaper. In that long career I gained exposure (behind the firewall) to PostgreSQL, MySql, PHP, CSS, VB, VBA, Windows and Linux shell s‎crip‎ting, Wordpress, Autoit and (this dates me) XyWrite XPL! Now that I'm flunking Retirement 101, I'm looking at other opportunities to keep the brain streaming. I am returning to my first two loves - duplicate bridge and coding, where I aim to become intermediate or better in Perl and (shhhh) Python. In March 2010 I joined Nozzl Media, Inc. (www.nozzlmedia.com), a startup founded by former co-workers at The Oregonian. A good friend and fellow monk told me there's no better place to learn about and play with Perl than Perlmonks.org ... so here I am to stay.