About:

Once upon a time, SCO set up a toy web site for their employees to fiddle with. They called it ocston ("not SCO", backwards, get it?). I started piling pages up there, initially to support Ftwalk, then added more things from time to time. In July 2000, SCO was falling apart as a business, and they sold my division off to Caldera. I was laid off in the transition, but SCO or Caldera or whoever let me keep my ocston website up. This came to an end approx. Oct. 25, 2001. Some months prior I had set up a tomhull.com domain, with the intent of taking my ocston pages and rewriting / restructuring them, using new tools that I hadn't been able to use at ocston. I hadn't gotten much done on this conversion, but with ocston off the air, the time to get in gear has come. Expect that over time the web pages under here will wither away.

These are (or were) my personal web pages. They are not necessarily meant to be useful or even interesting to anyone else. Which is not to say that they may not useful or interesting to you -- it's just that if they are that says as much about you as about me.

Ever since I've been acquainted with HTML, I've thought that web pages should be a fine tool for organizing one's thoughts and life. Like most of my ideas, this one mostly just rattles around in my head, but once in a while, I do commit some thought to virtual paper. This is as good a place as any to file these jottings.

News:

• [12-Apr-04]: Send Me Music to Review.
• [31-Mar-04]: I've set up a website for my political blogs, Notes on Everyday Life.
• [12-May-02]: I've been working on collecting my Old Rock Critic Writings.
• [28-Oct-01]: Moved these pages from Ocston.
• [20-Jun-01]: I have a new notebook computer, Sony VAIO FX-190, running Windows ME (came with it) and Linux dual boot. Much remains to be done, but see my Install Notes.
• [20-Jun-01]: Brenda Metcalf sent me a link for some family geneology, along with extensive photographs of Fluty Cemetery in Baxter County, Arkansas. I have grandparents (Benjamin and Mary Brown) and two uncles (Ted Brown and Allen Brown) buried there.
• [12-Feb-01]: New section for book reviews.
• [21-Jan-01]: New public draft of home networking/automation business plan.
• [29-Nov-00]: Comments on presidential elections.
• [07-Sep-00]: SCO lays off 190 employees. I'm one of them.
• [08-Jun-00]: My mother, Bea Hull (née Bessie Brown), died.
• [04-Mar-00]: My father, Carl Hull, died.

Reviews:

• Music database: I have a rudimentary music database, which rates over 9000 records (most styles except classical).
• Recycled Goods: Backup copies of my Static Multimedia reissues column.
• Rearview Mirror: Backup copies of my Seattle Weekly reissues column.
• [The New] Rolling Stone Album Guide: Entries I wrote.
• Year end lists: 2004, 2003, etc.
• I have some brief Movies 2000 reviews. I doubt that this is going to be a regular feature.

Software:

• Ftwalk is a script programming language, similar gramatically to awk but as full-featured as perl.
• Only the Free World Can Stand Up to Microsoft: A software economics manifesto [written Nov. 1997].
• MPL/GPL Incompatibility: a detailed note on the incompatibility.

Personal:

• I have a resume. I am looking for employment and/or business opportunities. I want to work on free software on Linux.
• I have a working list of project ideas.
• I have a notebook, which is somewhere between a diary and a repository for random jottings.
• I have written up some political notes on the 2000 US presidential elections.
• I have a small collection of links that interest me.
• I like to cook, and have a file of recipes for things I have cooked.
• I have set up web pages for my father and mother, both of whom passed away during 2000.