Pogson’s Desktop at Robert Pogson

I have been told by people with clean desktops that the secret is to never finish the day with anything left on it… Here is my desktop, after I tidied it up…

The pretty yellow flower is a wild orchid that grows in the poplar forests of Canada. It forms a symbiotic relationship with fungi to obtain nutrients from decaying forest litter. In spite of producing many thousands of spores, it reproduces slowly, perhaps taking 25 years for a generation. They pop up and flower before the poplar put out leaves so that they take advantage of the sunshine. Most orchids are tropical but these survive winter air temperatures of -40C by being in contact with earth at near 0C. Flies are the pollinators and the foul smell produced is used to attract flies. The species is Cypripedium parviflorum.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.