EightAByte Industries

The online home of experienced technologist Ken Scott.

About Me

How I got here...

Ken Scott

Experienced technologist
Experienced technologist with a demonstrated history of working in the investment banking industry. Strong engineering professional skilled in analytics, enterprise architecture, agile methodologies, IT strategy and business solutions.

Blog

My thoughts.

Welcome.

- May 28, 2018

Welcome to EightAByte Industries, the online home for experienced technologist, Ken Scott (me ;-).  This is the first of, hopefully, many blog posts.

15 Years? Really?

- October 18, 2019

Note: This is a re-post of my friend Michael Wilson’s blog entry of his experience on 9/11. It is posted here unedited, in his original format from his blog. You can see the original here. I only post it to ensure that it is not lost to time and because I was so moved by […]

My Heart Attack

- October 18, 2019

Note: The following is an account I had posted to Facebook years ago. I figured I might as well post it here for posterity’s sake. On Tuesday, February 21st, we had Mexican for dinner. Everything was cool. Around 9:00 pm the girls turned in and I told Karen I was having a little indigestion. I […]

Waka Waka Bang Splat

- October 23, 2018

In a recent magazine poll, readers established “waka” as the proper pronunciation for the angle-bracket characters < or >. The following poem appeared recently in the magazine.   The text of the poem follows:   < > ! * ‘ ‘ # ^ ” ` $ $ – ! * = @ $ _ % […]

Favorite Quotes

- October 10, 2018

“Here’s to a long life and a merry one, a quick death and an easy one, a pretty girl and an honest one, a stiff drink and another one!” -Unknown “To friends and enemies, neighbors and lovers.  Six of one, half a dozen of the other.” -Ken Scott “So never ever save old bottles of […]

PGP Key

- May 28, 2018

For those needing to contact me, here is my PGP key.