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What is gigo you might ask?

The Hacker's Dictionary has this to say:

GIGO:

/gi:'goh/ [acronym] 1. `Garbage In, Garbage Out' -- usually said in response to lusers who complain that a program didn't "do the right thing" when given imperfect input or otherwise mistreated in some way. Also commonly used to describe failures in human decision making due to faulty, incomplete, or imprecise data. 2. `Garbage In, Gospel Out': this more recent expansion is a sardonic comment on the tendency human beings have to put excessive trust in `computerized' data.

For the purposes of this site, it was given new meaning several years
ago. I applied the GIGO name to a software package I
wrote. The primary purpose of that package was to translate messages
between a hobby based system called Fidonet to the Internet. The name
Garbage In, Garbage Out seemed rather suitable, given the nature
of what was being transfered.

This site is now primarily a home for hobbyists. It provides
free services to hobby groups and individuals who contribute to the
community.

Yes, it's true! I do have a family, thanks to the help of my loving wife Dana�. The photo below is with us wearing SCA garb (SCA, The Society for Creative Anachronism, is a place where we go to do historical recreations of the medieval ages). That image is from somewhere around 1997.

Jason works at Yahoo!, and can be reached as jfesler@gigo.com.

Danaë runs the local SCA goldenrivers.org web site and can be reached as hobbit@gigo.com . For the curious, you may also find these SCA links useful: cynagua.org, westkingdom.org, www.sca.org.

The kids are much older than this picture appears. However, their email addresses are not published. Contact one of us if you have a legitimate reason to request their address.

I'm just your average computer geek who has found that all compouters suck, all operating systems suck, all routers suck, etc - it's just a matter of finding the one tha sucks the least for the application you have in mind. If you were looking for my resume.. click here. Don't forget, that if you need me for a large project to check my availability. Quick note: I'm the combo System Administrator, Network Administrator, CGI-Guy, and Fire Fighter.

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