About

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I am a fairly nondescript 30-something creative geek who’s passionate about several facets of web production from design, development, and accessibility, to user experience and interface.

In my spare time (all forty-two minutes per day) I practice intensely at living a rather solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short life1 much to the chagrin of my immediate family, whom I vaguely perceive as that woman I’m certain I married at some point and those small, loud, and dangerous people living in my home. (hey, kids!)

I enjoy the outdoors, making art, and spending time with my family- I’m often quite the gadget head, and pseudo-sysadmin type as well. Oh, and apparently, I have a pretty decent set of tech writing chops, which I’ve been able to take to another level thanks mostly to a certain Captain who helped me sail aboard an awesome vessel that be a beauty at virtualiz’n and full of awesome mateys who are not necessarily shouting “arrr”, but more like rrrr! ;-)

Work Stuff

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I have about 25 years of intense computer shenanigans under my belt, with almost 15 of those years working professionally in various computer related fields. Throughout those years, I’ve done everything from saving thousands of lines of BASIC to cassette tapes, to booting Slackware Linux 1.0 off floppies, to developing an operating system instance that powers the point of sale devices for the largest convenience store chain in Canada.

Currently, I work on various web stuff for a rapidly growing liberal arts and teaching university in the mountains of northwestern North Carolina.

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When not having my sensibilities brutally smashed by the bureaucracy on campus, I am busy with personal projects which tend to involve the Drupal content management framework/system, and most recently, a certain little Python-powered web application designed to share 21st century-style news blogs and media for Boone North Carolina.

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