About Us

Actually,
"we" is me, Greg Lauver. I often write "us" and "we" purely by habit:

Many years in corporations, numerous individual and collaborative efforts to compose policy, reporting, and training documents, and gracious guidance from American Indian Elders, left me ingrained with the sense of "team", and of "we." Coincidentally, a beneficial result of a lifelong pursuit of the foundations of awareness has been to relieve the excessive focus on "ME."

The upshot is that I find it easier to write from a group perspective. Now you know that "we" aren't some den of corporate devils waiting to eat your lunch.

Quite to the contrary.

I've never been wealthy, therefore I've learned about technology from plenty of reading and plenty of trial and error - the "white hat" hacker's approach - not from classwork.

Along the way I discovered that technology had sufficiently advanced so the user side of it was no longer exquisitely difficult, yet I repeatedly met struggling users. Some were ordinary folks, others made 6 figure salaries; but computers had become omnipresent, and people were feeling the pressure to "get on board," with varying success.

When I finally reached a saturation point with mean bosses and the big city - with it's eye-stinging pollution, deafening traffic, daylit nights, and helicopters 24/7 - my inner country boy steered me to the outskirts of Durango, Colorado, with the idea that I could help people engage computing technology effectively, easily, and inexpensively.

I work to incorporate those 3 aspects into everything I write for this site, often into the wee hours of the morning, inspired, of course to attract work, but also by the possibility that readers may freely benefit. As time permits, I've written about issues with which I and others have struggled. Can you learn more elsewhere? Definitely. I hope to inspire you to learn.

I have. At a major corporation I taught myself, from scratch (learning how to log on), to be a mainframe computer systems analyst. That box was the size of 8 full size refrigerators, densely packed with chips, disk drives the size of washing machines, and supported up to 10,000 users. One day I bought a little toy called a "PC" (no wonder they call 'em microcomputers), and it's been the same ever since.

Although I began this site as a means of advertising my services, it gradually became a personal art project as well as a training ground for experimenting with new (to me) techniques, without some Big Boss popping in to demand, "What's goin' on here?".

So, look around, Dear Reader; you may find something you like.

There are several goodies I wrote of necessity and some just for fun. Though I can't stop you from appropriating my code, I do ask that you include an acknowledgement citing LauverSystems.com as the source of the concept. I even credit AIs when I use their stuff.

Michigan!

After many years in Colorado, we moved to Michigan in the late summer of 2010. My seldom-updated blog, Prismatica, explains why.

Best wishes and safe computing!
Feel free to contact me for help.

P.S.: If you have used and appreciated my services, consider rating Lauver Systems℠ at Google or Yelp. Here's an official link to LauverSystems.com in case you want to post it to a family-friendly site.