Traveling down the nerdy path

I have really been enjoying myself recently. My church work and my work work have been working together and it's been great for me. We have been talking a lot about God being open source. Additionally, I work for Novell who is greatly involved in open source software. Novell is just getting ready to release our latest desktop solution (instead of running Windows you can run this) and I am using it and enjoy it. I'm using GIMP for my photo manipulation and I think OpenOffice is the best stuff I have used for an office solution. There are so many talented individuals that are working hard to make software available for everyone. I'm just loving Bloglines for my blog reader.

To me it is all just data, though. I know some people are passionate about Linux or Windows or MacIntosh operating systems. Heck, here at home I run SuSE 10, SLED 10, Windows XP and Mac OSX and I'm just happy to use what works for whatever I am doing. I'm not a purist and I don't see it as a religion. I want to just use the technology to accomplish a task. Maybe that makes me strange, but I just want a computer or piece of technology to do what it is supposed to do!

I know a lot of the time, in RCC's production meeting I'll be asked if a certain computer can do something. As long as the computer is not too old and out of date, the answer is usually "yes." Because for almost every problem we come up with, there has been another person who has had that problem and somebody somewhere has decided to come up with a solution for it. FreshMeat is a place that shows the latest open source projects available to be worked on if you are so inclined. SourceForge has a listing of a ton of open source projects from their beginning stages to the second and third release of the product. You can spend hours out there looking for an open source solution to a problem.

Isn't that what a good computer program is anyway? Just a solution to a problem? Whether we knew there was a problem or not.