Wayne Pendragon Owens

Wayne was born at a very early age and has not died yet, which is something he considers to be a bit of an achievement.

He joined Freemasonry in 2006, went into the chair for the first time in 2011, and started giving talks across several Provinces in early 2017, before joining NWAMS as a speaker in 2021.

He Is an accidentally established Masonic author and has had articles published in several Masonic and non-Masonic periodicals.

by Wayne Pendragon Owens

I am an Author, Freemason, Rosicrucian, Blood Biker, Widows Son, CodeNinja, Spod, Hacker, Son, Uncle, Brother, Man, AN INDIVIDUAL!

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30th January 2009

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Jibba Jabber – Part 1

In the words of a Modern day philosopher :-

Mr. T “Got no time for the jibba jabba!”

Well the Governor of the Insane Asylum has decided the Inmates need a new communication system, to cut down on the expense of plumbers to fix broken pipes from our current system of tapping on the heating pipes with a metal cup.

So an email was sent forth from the Governor asking peoples opinions on what Messaging system they would prefer, and what do they like. Some of the responses are below :-

  • PostIt Notes (My suggestion)
  • ICQ
  • Skype
  • MSN/ICQ/AIM/Yahoo/ANy
  • Walking over to person and Talking. (another one of Mine)

Then As the debate got sillier and sillier, involving Walkie-Talkie radios and Zombie invasions, I decided on the following Insane idea.

I vote for a telnet talker, and bots running on all our servers so they talk on there as well telling us when they not feel well, so we get preemptive IM chat from the servers before they break.

OK, so its all just Banter amongst the Inmates, nothing serious, right?

Wrong, The Governor comes to visit me in my nice padded room all happy and excited.. “I love your idea, can we really do that? it would be brilliant, I’ll let everyone know we going for our own IM system”

So I’m now looking at an install of Jabberd2 on one of our servers, getting a series of clients to recommend for Linux, windows, iPhone, and getting all Inmates onto one locked down system.  Before getting our monitoring software to talk using it, and then making mini-AI’s for all our servers.

Oh and a support account to run from a widget on our customer only website…..

Its a good Job I am brilliant!!

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