About goption
I'm Brian Casey. This is a place for me to write about some of the things I do in life - the web, motorcycling, technology, books, maybe a little politics. You'll find a few photos, some half-baked ideas, a little code from time to time, and other odds and ends.
I live in Temple City, California, USA, and have worked for a well-known computer-aided engineering company in Glendale since 1985. I work on licensing APIs in C and Fortran, and web applications in PHP, JavaScript, AJAX, and Perl.
What does goption mean
Back when I was going to school, I worked at the Jet Propulsion Lab as a computer operator on old-school Univac 1108's running Exec-8. When the OS had problems, the console operator was given a set of choices, each with a one letter entry. The G option meant I tried everything else, and nothing worked, so it's time to move on to the next step.
Family
A lovely wife, Carole. Three boys: Jason, who lives in Pasadena and works at CalTech;; Jeremy, who recently finished work on his AA degree; and Justin, who's in his second year at PCC and working at UPS. Two great cats — Gavin and Smidge (who's been professionally diagnosed as 'crazy', with good reason), and a dog named Buddy.
Things I Like To Do
I like to ride my motorcycle. I rode a lot when I was younger, and restarted in late 2002. I love long rides.
There's never enough time to read.I referee local high school soccer games from time to time, and help out with the local youth soccer organization.
I try to give platelets as often as allowed, and gave my 150th apheresis donation in August, 2007.
About the Site
This site is built using Movable Type 3.121 and MySQL, and runs on a Red Hat Linux system using Apache. The site is hosted at BCI Systems, who I heartily recommend, since I own and run it. Some other technical details about the site can be found in the Site News archives.
The site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 license. My goal is to have a usable, standards-compliant site, but I'm not yet dogmatic about it.