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"HighFlyer" (aka David Tinker) is a retired biochemist living in the
Annapolis valley in Nova Scotia, Canada. My
OpenVerse nickname comes from my abiding interest in aviation and aviation history.
NEW! The adventures of Pumpkin Boy in Annapolis Royal!
Three nice Spring Scenes from Nova Scotia for your computer desktop wallpaper.
A Gallery of Roses for your computer desktop wallpaper.
Photos from the Stanley Airfield Fly-In and Drive-In, 2005.
Data from the 2007 Christmas Bird Count sponsored by the Annapolis Field Naturalists Society (AFNS) is available here. To access data from earlier years, click here.
Other birding sites, including my California Birding article may be found on the Links page.
The Links page has a collection of back issues of "The Granville Times" for those who wish to remember ye olden times, and some other miscellaneous jottings.
I also post links to British Auto sites.
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The Internet is all about sharing. Well, some people would say, it is all about flaming :-), but really, the global communications network came into existence because of the unpaid contributions of people in academic institutions, corporations, research foundations and other places. Some of these people were professional software engineers, others were students, a few were inspired amateurs. No corporate or government entity co-ordinated, financed or regulated much of their work. Loose organisations like the Open Software Foundation are more a statement of ideals than functional entities. The community of programmers, users (and, some would say, weirdos :-) that created the OpenVerse program is typical of the internet communities that have sprung up to work on various projects.
Why do people contribute time, energy and money to something that cannot possibly bring them material rewards? Good question. Here's a short essay that explores this kind of activity, for which the author coined the term "Agalmic" enterprises.
Find it at