JamesCrossman.com

Technologist. Photographer. Naturalist. Thinker.

Nature Is My Home

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Aside from either work or home, where do you like to go to get away from it all?

Often, when I am not working with technology, or at home with my kids, I can be found in Nature somewhere. When I decided to bring all of my interests and efforts together into this single communications channel, I knew my explorations and studies in Nature would be a part of it. This post is another in my small introductory series to introduce you to myself, my site and my interests and to start the discussion of what needs this place and I can help meet.

Indian Paintbrushes

Although born in Houston and raised in New Orleans, I grew up spending quite a bit of time in the piny woods, swamps and marshes of Louisiana and Mississippi from my time as a Boy Scout. Nowadays, it may be because of the Brazos Bend photowalks taught by Dr. Lazlo Perlaky, or my own volunteer work at the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center, or just setting time aside for the Texas State Parks and even occasional wanderings into Oklahoma and Kansas as I explore the Great Plains. I am also working towards certification as a Texas Master Naturalist.
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Technology, Communications and I

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An Introduction

My name is James Crossman and I was born on a technical cusp.  Born at a time that makes our first landing on the moon a childhood memory, I was probably one of the last high school students to use a sliderule and one of the first to see a microcomputer in the classroom.  In the years since, I have worked in and around technology in a variety of ways, mostly involving computers and data communications, and branching into the ways we humans use technology to communicate with one another.

Technology as a whole (especially how it can help us and our world) has always fascinated me, so I am using the Social Media Technology of the Internet to create this site for you, dear readers.  While this site spans all of my professional, and a few personal, interests, it is mostly here to serve as a technical tool to interact with people on the Internet in a responsible manner, and in a way to help others as I have been helped over the years.

How much of your data goes outside?
How much of your data goes outside?

While my focus here is in helping you with your needs, it may help if I first share a little about myself, my history and what I may be able to do for you, to serve as a background for our future discussions.  This first post is the beginning of a brief run of five posts – one for each major category of this site – to speak a little about myself and my interests and to invite you to join the conversations here.
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