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Welcome

This is the home of Aaron Sherman.

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My Essays on everything from programming to religion.
AJS Reviews is my sometimes-more-than-weekly review of the best of science fiction, fantasy, and gaming related material!
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:
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

Photography

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
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?