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[[Image:dan-n-gg.jpg|right|thumb|Ray, Dan, and Kerry in 1998]] | |||
'''Dan Barrett''' is the creator of the Gentle Giant Home Page. | '''Dan Barrett''' is the creator of the Gentle Giant Home Page. | ||
Born in 1963, Dan has been a progressive rock fan for many years but, believe it or not, didn't hear of Gentle Giant until 1987, when a good friend introduced him to [[The Power and the Glory]]. And... he didn't like it! But somehow, those complex compositions ingrained themselves on his brain, and today that album is Dan's favorite in all of rock music. | |||
Dan created the GG Home Page while earning his Ph.D. in computer science at the [http://www.cs.umass.edu University of Massachusetts at Amherst]. Today he works in the software industry. He has written columns and articles for [http://www.keyboardmag.com Keyboard Magazine] and is the author of several books about computing, including [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxpg/ ''Linux Pocket Guide''], [http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596519797/ ''MediaWiki''], [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxsckbk/ ''Linux Security Cookbook''], [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sshtdg2/ ''SSH, the Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide''], [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/netresearch ''NetResearch: Finding Information Online''] and [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bandits ''Bandits on the Information Superhighway''], all published by [http://www.oreilly.com O'Reilly Media]. | |||