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Mark Linimon
Lonesome Dove Computing Services
3267 Bee Caves Road #107
PMB #121
Austin, TX 78746-6700
USA
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Computer consultant, music fan(atic), cat owner, junk Volkswagen© collector.

My chief passion is music, both recorded and live. If you're interested in the latter, you might want to check out my Guide to Austin Music (and beyond). Or even better, if you live around Austin, check out southbysowhat.org for a description of the madness that infects Austin every March.

I co-administer soaustin.net, a website set dedicated to helping Austin musicians getting the word out about their music. (We offer web design and hosting at pretty reasonable rates; check us out!) Among the sites we host there are Darcie Deaville's web site and Jason Eklund's web site.

As for me, I graduated from Rice University in 1980, and still keep up with many friends from there. A number of them worked on either the Thresher (the student newspaper) or KTRU (the student radio station).

As for work, I have a consultancy known as Lonesome Dove Computing Services. (I used to live about a half-mile from the Lonesome Dove Baptist Church, founded in the late 1800s. This was the original place from which Larry McMurtry took the title of his novel.) But at the moment, I'm playing employee again, at the Goodbyte Corporation, a startup working on a next-generation Application Server designed to web-enable existing SQL databases onto Intranets, including Human Resources self-service applications, but much more generally applicable.

As for opinions, see Mark's Barstool. You'll find my rantings on the decrepit state of the Austin live music scene, software development, and any other idiocy that comes to mind. In addition, if you're not easily offended, check my gallery of stuff that is in poor taste.

Of course I have my own list of time-wasting hobbies, if you're interested. Included is my list of webcomics I read.

Finally, here's a picture of the cat that used to own me.. She's "gone to be with St. Francis" now, but you can still read her views on how I ran things here.

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