... but I will still be the Master of My Domain

After 33 years, I've decided to retire PCV Software as a programming and web development entity. I am maintaining this site because 1) it is a portal to the Christ Lutheran Church website, 2) it's my mail domain and server, and 3) I can archive and open source the coding I've done over the years, since I am the sole copyright owner to the programs I've listed on this site.

Another incentive is that the old site was not mobile-friendly, and Google now downgrades in their search results sites that don't accommodate mobile devices. Since I spent a lot of time making the Christ Lutheran site responsive and mobile-friendly, I didn't want the poor rating of the main PCV Software site to affect their search results.

So, now that I don't have to pretend to be a web developer anymore, I can pretty much put whatever I want on the site. I'll use this opportunity to archive stuff that I'm interested in, pat myself on the back regarding past projects, talk about my various hobbies, and just ruminate a bit on whatever I feel like.

A little history: the image on the right is the ad I used to place in the Lone Star Region (Houston) of the Porsche Club of America newsletter. I was the newsletter editor, an unpaid position, of course, so I used the business name of "PCV Software" so that I could file a Schedule C with the IRS and write off everything I was spending on hardware, software and supplies.

So, what can you still find on this site?

• Projects — some of the programming projects I've worked on over the years. I've included the source code in case anyone wants to use it for their own programs, and you are free to do so. They're pretty old (do you remember PC-DOS?), but some of the algorithms and techniques I developed may be useful.
• Careers — it's been an interesting 40+ years finding things to do to provide a good income, finance my various hobbies and secure a reasonably comfortable retirement.
• Hobbies — as you can tell by the picture above, cars have been a major hobby of mine (I'm driving the number 71 Porsche Carrera coming out of turn 3 at Texas World Speedway in College Station, Texas). I earned my private pilot license in 1990, and fly my own airplane.
• Miscellaneous — I like to characterize these things as "what happened to me while I was making Other Plans.

What won't you find on this site?

A "Contact Me Form" or my email address, or any other way of contacting me. Trying to keep people from hacking my form to send spam email (usually people from Russia, China or Eastern Europe — and no, that's not a stereotype, I recorded every attempt and looked up the originating IP address) has been a major distraction for the various websites I've developed. In order to practice becoming the crotchety old man to which I aspire, I really don't want to hear from you unless you already have my email address. Deal with it.