[Charlug] Hi Charlug! (New Member Intro)

[Mike Harrison]

> Hi Mike! What's your favorite ale to chug?

I'm a little older and wiser to "chug",
but lately have been sipping Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
while catching up on e-mail. I have learned
to NOT reply to flame baiting e-mails after two beers. :)

That being said, regarding other flavors, I like
Gin and Tonic.. Any gin. But I get pickier about other things in my life:

I still use Pine for most of my e-mail, on my mail server, even for a 
gmail account I'm forced to use by a client. :) Evolutions works for me
for my 'business' e-mail with lots of attachments and clueless OutLook 
users on the other end.

vi vs emacs? I'd rather use "joe". Mostly because I have been using 
wordstar keybindings since the dark ages. I'll even install Cygwin on a 
Windows system mostly for the bash shell and joe. It's UTF-8 and Binary 
Safe. Useful when you pull up files with traditional chinese in them.

Distro: Ubuntu. I've got servers running 6.06 through 8.04 and it works 
well for most of what I do. I've also run a lot of RedHat and Centos, and 
in my earlier days, yes, I was a slacker.. spicing up my recipies includes 
some Slowlaris, Interactive Unix, Concurrent Dos, Z80 "oZ".. a little 
MacOS and M$-stuff.

Languages: PHP. Lousy Language, Fantastic Tool. PERL, Lovely language for 
parsing data, doing odd things. "JavaScript"/EcmaScript, Lousy bad 
language, only tool available for many many things. C when I absolutely 
have to, I suck at it.

Databases: MySQL for webish stuff also do PostgreSQL and Sybase as well.
Mostly MySQL for things lately.


So, what kinds of ale are ya'll chugging?  --Mike--