I’m Allen Sorbie — DotBat to the internet. I spent forty years in technology, twenty-one of them securing a global enterprise, and thirty-plus of them in Masonic Lodges across Florida. This site is both halves of that sentence.
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dotbatThe name comes from my Commodore days, where I automated an entire QA test bench with DOS batch files. The .bat extension stuck to me, and I’ve been automating things ever since. The full story →
Freemasonry
Thirty years, twelve bodies, one honest answer to “what actually goes on in there?” History, writings, my year as Shrine Potentate — and how to ask about joining.
Tech & Tinkering
Batch files to local AI models, with stops at quantum computing, 3D printing, and one seriously overbuilt workstation. The “geek by day” half.
30+ years a Freemason · 2025 Potentate, Sahib Shriners · 21 years directing enterprise security · 12 Masonic bodies served
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