Hippie Hacker: Boulder Bohemian will code for karma - Boulder Daily Camera

Monday, August 23, 2010

Boulder Bohemian will code for karma - Boulder Daily Camera

The Daily Camera did an article on me about two years ago. I sure do miss my '79 VW Bus Wally, but the spirit moves on as a friend told me about the song "free" by the Zac Brown Band. It's a fairly repetitive song, but does reflect Shalom and my life pretty well up to this point:

So we live out in our old van
Travel all across this land
Me and you

And we'll end up hand in hand
somewhere down on the sand
just me and you

Chorus:
Just as free
Free as we'll ever be
And ever be

We drive until the city lights
dissolve into a country sky

lay underneath the harvest moon
Do all the things that lovers do
Just me and you

Chorus...

No we don't have a Lot of money
No we don't have a Lot of money
No we don't have a Lot of money (X 10)
All we need is love

Chorus..

So we live out in our old van
Travel all across this land
Me and you

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You call youself a Hacker! Isn't that bad?

I'm am somewhat a mix of the Hacker Manefesto and aWhite Hat hacker.

That would be the movie equivalent of John Wayne hanging with the Easy Rider crew. Good? Yes. Knows how the 'other side' thinks? Yes.

I've written security application frameworks for several companies over the years. I also attained a CCIE in Security and know networking pretty well. I've got some killer ideas for some new applications, but I have to find the right folks to work with. Using this branding is a way to limit my market down to those folks I'd like to work with.

How do you make money?

You think I'm in this for the Money?

While I like having enough bread to keep gas in the van, keep the dog fed, and pay rent, but I don't like to ask the non-profit's I work for for money. Eventually I'd like do be able to fund myself with grants and contributions from people who have seen the impact of my work and want to spread the love.

For now, the interim approach is to use my skills as a 'Paid Professional Paranoid' and 'Internet Plumber' to get contract work. The gimmick here is that for each hour I contract out to a normal organization, I pledge to work an hour for a nonprofit to help them with security and efficiency. Hence getting the street cred with the other people out there doing good to find the bread I need to keep the van running.