I live with my wife, Elayne, in our home in Southeast Portland, from where we enjoy travel, hiking, backpacking, astronomy, horse back riding (English hunter/jumper and endurance) and scuba diving.

Elayne is the coordinator for the Cascade Ferret Network and I maintain the web page.

I am a black belt (2^nd Dan) and student at Bettencourt's Taekwon-Do America where my primary instructor is Master Bettencourt (7^th Dan).

You can reach me via email at leonard@whiteweasel.net.

I have a BS in Geology from Memphis State University, and have worked as a software engineer since 1979. I've spent much of my career working in the UNIX kernel on a variety of architectures ranging from PCs and workstations to massively parallel supercomputers. In April of 1998 I came to Oracle Corporation.

Those who are interested can look at my resume, although it is a little out of date.

You might find this simple astrophotography script I wrote useful for calculating image size and exposure times.

If you're a U.S. citizen, then you really should read the Constitution, an inspiring document which the religious right and corporate America have been subverting with an alarming frequency.