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Things I'm currently working on...

Business-

GetAnyGame Inc.
Like video games? Check out GetAnyGame. We rent video games "Netflix style" through the mail. We also have a system that allows people to make loads of money from their used games by renting them to our users on consignment. I am one of three founders of GetAnyGame Inc. The buzz around this company is truly awesome; we've been featured in articles from the New York Times, and Reuters, and interviewed by TechTV. I also ended up on the cover of an Italian tech rag called HappyWeb for all the shenanigans we pulled during our launch.

NuWestArt LLC.
A global aggregator of unique art. NuWestArt is the Amazon of hard to find art pieces from around the world. NuWestArt was founded when we realized that there was no one place a person could go to purchase fine art. I'm not talking about a print store here, I'm talking about original sculptures and paintings and even furniture... unique hard to find pieces. Stuff you'd want to decorate your house with. NuWestArt is that place. NuWestArt was launched in 2003 and is my newest venture. I am a co-founder and CTO of NuWestArt LLC.

OmniMeta Corp.
The workhorse of the bunch. OmniMeta was born from the ashes of Dataverse to take over the network services business from Dataverse and service the existing NS clients. OmniMeta is an Internet services company that resale's service out of Exodus data centers. We specialize in providing custom IDS solutoutions, security auditing and analysis, pre-firewalled T-1 connectivity and co-location for small and medium sized business in the Orange County area. OmniMeta also serves as a catalyst for many of my other businesses and personal projects. OmniMeta was founded by me in 2002.

Personal-

gigaQube
This is my cool-ass fileserver / mass storage solution. Built out of a Cobalt Qube and modified to be useful as a real fileserver while still retaining the look and feel of a first class conversation piece / Star Trek prop. I'm still improving it. The next version will have over .5TB of storage on tap. Open Source of course... It runs NetBSD/Cobalt which is a major improvement over Cobalt Linux. Check it out.

ShonSAT
No page up for this yet as it's still deep in the research phase. I intend to be the first person to build and launch (actually, pay to have launched) my own personal earth orbiting satellite. Guffaw if you must... it's really not as hard as it sounds. I've got most of the preliminary design work done. I was inspired to do this by AMSAT and serveral other recent satellites sent up by semi-amature groups for very low cost. My design uses reaction wheels to control the orientation of the satellite which simplifies the design by keeping the need for liquid propellants at a minimum.

Free Webmail
I'm in the process of testing a free web based email services similar to mail.yahoo.com that I've been wanting to launch for years. The system is based on Qmail, Vpopmail, and SqurrielMail running on a Linux/MySQL/PHP/Apache backend. I'm doing this because everybody can use more mail accounts, and it's a great way for me to utilize the huge mass of domains that I've acquired over the years. It's also a good testbed for research into other ideas that I have. You can signup for a test account here.

   
 
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