Weapons of choice: a sweet smile, a sharp wit and an HK P7 M8                                  Texas Proud
                                        

                                                                             


Deb Shinder

 

Email me at:
deb@debshinder.com

 

 

 

Deb receives Microsoft MVP again for 2008

On April 1, 2008, Deb Shinder received Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in Windows Server Systems Security for the fourth year in a row. She and her husband, Tom Shinder, are one of a handful of MVP couples.

 

 

It's cool to be
internationally famous

 

 

   
 

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

 

 

 TOP LINKS

Deb's RKBA page

Gun laws database

Jack Griffith's CHL training

 In defense of proper English usage

Who is Deb Shinder?

Debra Littlejohn Shinder is a former police officer/criminal justice instructor who now makes her living as an author, trainer and speaker. She has written or contributed to 26 books, published over 300 articles and has been living online, along with her husband Tom (whom she met via the Internet), since the mid-1990s.

In her spare time (yeah, right), Deb likes to play piano, swim in the pool or relax in the spa, take digital photographs or just sit and stare out her office window at the lake. She reads fifty or more novels each year and also enjoys watching her extensive collection of DVD movies and recording her favorite TV programs with her media center PC.

Deb dabbled in politics in the 1980s, serving as a city councilmember and public safety commissioner for the City of Seagoville, and as an executive officer of the Seagoville Chamber of Commerce.

Deb and Tom now live just east of Dallas, TX on the shores of beautiful Lake Ray Hubbard, and she has two grown kids: Kristen (who's in the Navy and currently stationed in Afghanistan) and Kristoffer (a recent graduate from the University of Dallas who teaches chess and participates in the family business).

The family also includes two "grandcats" and an elderly Spitz, along with lots of feathered friends who drop by for dinner frequently. Each summer, a family of barn swallows make a nest in the eaves of their balcony, and they have the privilege of watching a brood of baby swallows grow up and fledge.

Where I Spend Most of My Time

Click here to see my home office workspaces.

34.jpg (2850 bytes)

I am the luckiest person I know. I haven't ever won the lottery (yet), but in addition to being born to the best parents in the world, marrying the greatest guy in the world (okay, that one took three tries but it was worth it), and giving birth to the two most fantastic kids in the world, I have the best job(s) in the world and live in the most beautiful place in the world (in my opinion, and that's the one that counts). Life is good.


Deb & Tom, circa 1999

The Kids

Kristen                    Kristoffer

You can see more pictures of the Shinder family on Deb and Tom's personal homepage at www.shinder.net.


Kristen has just returned to the states after serving for a year on the
Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT)
in Asadabad, Afghanistan.
 

The "GrandCats"

Bobble and the Big Kitty

PORTRAITS OF BOBBLE
 Bobble 1  Bobble 2

34.jpg (2850 bytes)

Confessions of a Capitalist Piglet

Despite its faults and flaws, about which I complain regularly (having voted in the last election and thus earned the right to do so), I believe the United States of America is still the best country on earth. Our political and legal system, despite its deterioration since the days of the founding fathers, is still the fairest and freest known to man (in the non-gender-specific sense of the word).

I believe in the U.S. Constitution, not as a "living document" that can be interpreted in whatever way fits the fancy of the Judge of the Day, but as the Rock upon which my country was built. I believe in freedom of speech, even speech I abhor - but I also believe in my right to speak freely against that speech. I believe in freedom of religion, including for the most fanatical atheists -- but I don't believe they have any more right than anyone else to impose their (non)beliefs on the rest of us.

I believe in the right to keep and bear arms, and I believe it's a right of individuals, as are all the other rights recognized in the Bill of Rights. I'm a sustaining member of the NRA-ILA and I am a strong supporter of the purest form of gun control: being able to hit your target.

I believe in the fourth amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, and neither the War on Drugs, the War on Terror nor any other war should override it.

I believe in the fifth amendment right to remain silent, and often wish some people would exercise it more often. I believe in the sixth amendment right to an attorney, although I often wonder if maybe Shakespeare wasn't right about the lawyers.

I oppose a tax system and anti-trust laws that punish those who work hard to become successful and reward those who are content to live off the labors of others.

I like Microsoft software, although it's fine with me if you want to use Linux (just don't call me in the middle of the night to help you recompile your kernel, please). I do own one "token Mac," who sits in an obscure corner of the office. I often have to restrain Tom from throwing it into the lake.


This page was last updated on
Friday April 04, 2008

 

                    TEXLINKS                      


Texas Statutes Online

The Texas Constitution

Texas Legislature

Eyes on Texas

Texas Travel and Tourism

Texas Monthly

Texas Rangers
(Law Enforcement)


----------------

NON-STANDARD
   DISCLAIMERS



Warning:
This Web site is not and neither claims nor aspires to be politically correct.

Warning: This page and its subpages may at times contain opinions, information and observations that are likely to offend or even outrage some folks, and (I hope) amuse or even inspire others. Oh well.

Warning: Intelligent discourse is always welcome; flames and hate mail aren't. If you'd like to try to change my mind, feel free -- but be forewarned that I just might try to change yours in return.

Warning: Above all, don't forget Rule #1: Never enter a battle of wits unarmed.

-----------------------

I
Heart1b5
my
Windows Mobile phone:
Click here to see my Samsung i760 and other favorite toys

 

BEST
BOOKS

cover
Scene of the Cybercrime

 

 

 

 

Computer Networking Essentials

With Tom:
Dr. Tom Shinder's Configuring ISA Server 2004
Configuring ISA Server 2004
(Despite the name, Deb did write half the book)

With Jim Boyce:
Windows XP Answers from the Experts
Windows XP Answers from the Experts

 

Recommended
Fiction

State of Fear
Michael Crichton

The Ender series
Orson Scott Card

The Dark Tower series
Stephen King

Rage
Jonathon Kellerman

Skyhook
John Nance

Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson

The Last Nazi
Stanley Pottinger

Joshua's Hammer
David Hagberg

The Rule of Four
Ian Caldwell
Dustin Thomason

Shadow of the Giant
Orson Scott Card

Broken Prey
John Sandford

Hour Game
David Baldacci

Empire
Orson Scott Card

Guns of the South
Harry Turtledove

Wild Fire
Nelson DeMille

Non-fiction

Lone Star
T.R. Fehrenbach

My Grandfather's Son
Clarence Thomas

Guns, Germs and Steel
Jared Diamond

 

Favorite TV Shows
(many of which are gone but not forgotten)

Star Trek (all)

Stargate SG-1
Stargate Atlantis

Battlestar Galactica

Andromeda

Firefly

Jeremiah

JAG

House

24

Lost

Jericho

Las Vegas

Without a Trace

NCIS

 

Thanks
for being visitor #

Hit Counter


In memory
Sept. 11, 2001