User:Ajs

External sites I use/update

• Meta: A more visual list
• My Blog: Aaron's Essays(RSS)
• My Google Profile
• Twitter(RSS)
• Facebook
• Google Calendar
• Google Reader(RSS)
• Music I like
• Amazon Wishlist

Picture of me.

• leave me a message
• Visit my resume.
• My Essays on everything from programming to religion.
• I also have a Blogspot blog where I talk about all of my Web sites: Aaron's Gaming Blog
• Check out The Sacrifice, an independent film by a friend of mine.
  • And now the sequel, The Resurrection, has a trailer on YouTube (new!)
• Free Stuff from Gnutella!

Politics

"The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism, but the theory of necessity on which it is based is false; for the government, within the Constitution, has all the powers granted to it, which are necessary to preserve its existence."
–United States Supreme Court, Ex parte Milligan [71 U.S. 2] (1866)

• I have a number of political essays on this site.
• Check out some organizations that I support or advocate the work of:
  • FactCheck.org
  • Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
  • The Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Kenneth W. Kizer (former V.A. chief) made an interesting case, in his testimony before the Subcommittee on Health of the House Committee on Ways and Means in 2006, for the use of open source software in the U.S. federal government.

Cooking

• Chicken soup for the sick
• Nam Prik Ong - A Thai Chili Recipe
• Swedish Meatballs - a family recipe

Photography

• NEW! These days, most of my photography is archived on Picasa under AaronJSherman's public gallary
• Look at my photography and my whole gallery.
• See my family
• Discover mushrooms, and follow my walking trips with my Mushroom Journal
• I've recorded the Cambridge, MA traffic jam during the blizzard of December, 2007 for posterity....

Gaming

For information on the role-playing games, board games and what not that I enjoy, please see my gaming sub-page and my video game essays

Technical

• I'm a long-time user of and contributor to the Perl programming language:
  • Read a collection of my most useful Perl one-liners.
  • Look forward to Perl 6 with my common tasks in Perl 6 article.
  • See the Perl-derived language that I'm working on specifying and implementing: Sand
• Read my suggestions on timing out Linux commands.
• My http://www.google.com/calendar/images/ext/gc_button1.gif
• mkpasswd is a utility that I wrote long ago to generate random Linux/Unix-style passwords.
• Do you have a large MySQL database that you want to replicate somewhere? Ever wonder how to copy large MySQL databases with minimal downtime?