F-40 at the French Quarter Classic                 In the Enzo at No Problem Raceway                        The S2000; Gerry's Favorite

My Web Cam

Wanna see what the weather's like on the Florida Panhandle? Our Panasonic webcam is looking out the front window. Gerry's WebCam.

My Cars

Here's a list of all the cars I've owned. Wish I could show you pictures of each of them.

Retirement

Retirement is what you make of it. Sometimes days go by and I never leave the house.  I don't need to; I have a computer!!

Hurricanes

Californians live with the threat of earthquakes, midwesterners with the threat of tornados and so on.  We here in Florida live with the threat of hurricanes.  No place is safe from mother nature.  As any Californian will tell you, "The delight of living here is worth the risk."   What can I add?

Why gagme.org?

Briefly, when the internet was new I was living near Chicago. I ran an on-line computer system called vpnet (Villa Park Network) where others could log in and read news items on a service known as Usenet.

Vpnet eventually became known as vpnet.chi.il.us. When the World Wide Web was born, many of my friends who had similiar systems, set up servers and became internet service providers. Among them was my friend Greg Gulik who owned a system which became known as gagme.com. Click on the link for the complete story. Anyhow, all of these private enterprises were eventually purchased by major ISP's and the names became history.

When I decided to set up a web page here in Florida, I needed to find a domain name. I searched through the names of the ISP's I remember from the windy city. All the vpnet domain names were taken (com, org, net), but going down the list, I discovered gagme.org was still available. When contacted, my friend Greg's comment was "How rude". Actually, it isn't rude at all, but is intended as a tribute to days gone by. Live long and prosper Greg!

Gerry's Other Web Page

Just doing some experimenting with self-hosting. That's when you host a web page on your own computer. So the reliability and speed of this web site will be less than what you may be used to. The advantage is I am not limited to the constraints of commercial sites. I can run Flash movies, Front Page extensions, php, perl, java and other acronyms as I see fit. On my new web site I tell stories from a different point of view. Here's the link. Tell me what you think of my site. :)

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