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Hello,

Just wanted to introduce myself, well not really as I am somewhat of a private person, but I'll try.

My name is Matt, though I prefer to be addressed by my nickname in public, I'm I guess you could say middle aged and married, Linux is one of my many passions and the OS I use for my personal system and I have been using it for about a decade now, though I still learn something new all the time, I was a Windows Administrator and even an MSN employee at one time, though I am now a Linux and Unix Systems Administrator and have numerous other certifications in addition to those, Such at A+, Apache, Web Administrator and Web Designer to name a few things I might be able to help you with.

I do a little of everything, Bourne shell scripting, CSS, HTML, PHP and perl, of course the list goes on, what I don't know I generally can find out, often fairly quickly, one one biggest problem is that I refuse to give up and rarely ask for help, maybe it's because I rarely get it when I ask for it, so I've had to become somewhat self reliant. I hate to stop before I'm done with a project and refuse to stop before it's secure and stable.

I also do some gaming game server adminstration and level design and just started my first wiki at http://radiantmapping.wikia.com which is intended to gather tutorials on mapping for the ID software gaming engines using Radiant.

I also have a lot of pets, cats, dogs and fish, I've had others in the past such as farm animals, reptiles and varmin, as one of my formor co-workers once said I'm a varietal database of knowledge, sometimes useful, sometimes not, but there's a lot of it in there and none of it was put in by amateurs, I've always been the type of person to verify facts before storage and I prefer to watch and listen rather than speak when I don't know and when I do know I have a nasty habit of confront people who are trying to guide someone when it's obvious they don't have a clue about what they are talking about.

So, now that I've bored you to death I'll be on my way, but I'll be around and I'll try to help those in need when I can.