The author started this as a blog under an anonymous identity as a pigeon named pidgie. For all intents and purposes, you may assume the author is a pigeon and respond accordingly. Stale breadcrumbs, and nut mixes originally intended for sparrows excite the author, who has accrued about half a decade of gruntwork in the industry in various languages all the way from the web to high performance native code with a lot of linux-fu along the way.