Hi! I'm James Turner. I'm the President of Black Bear Software, as well as a senior software engineer at Kronos, Inc. I'm also a freelance journalist and writer whose work has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor and WIRED, among others (here's a link to an index of all my articles). I've also written two books on Java Server Pages for Sams, and am the senior contributing editor for LinuxPlanet. I do Java e-Commerce Development, and hang out a lot on the Internet. I'm 44 years old, am married and have a son who was born in 1995.

For people who care, my birthday is August 2nd, which makes me one of those bossy Leos.

I'm also:

Previous to starting Black Bear Software, I worked for Lisp Machine, Inc, Xerox, Solbourne Computer, Kendall Square Research and Interleaf. Here's my resume. You can email me at turner@blackbear.com

My current pride and joy is my new rackmount cabinet, here's a couple of photos:

 

From top to bottom:
  • Dual Audio Tape Deck
  • SVHS VCR
  • Audio Patch Bay
  • 1U Linux Server
  • 1U Pullout Keyboard and Mouse (Gentoo Server Console)
  • Gentoo Linux MythTV Server
  • Windows XP Server
  • UPS Supplies for All of the Above

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  • Cable Modem
  • Network Switches (x2)
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