For those of you wondering who I am, here is the long version.

For those of you that want the short version ...

My friend Katy took a pretty picture of me (and Chris) in April 2003, if you are curious what I look like.

My history? I moved to Tucson, AZ from Columbus, OH in 1994 so I could attend the University of Arizona. I graduated with degrees in Journalism and Computer Science. I miss Tucson to this very day.

While I was there I worked for Arizona Student Media, where I picked up a lot of geeky skills as their sysadmin - Linux, PHP, MySQL, HTML, and so on. After school, I worked for a few dot coms - all of which eventually exploded in spectacular fashion, owing me lots of money.

Shortly after that, I went on a huge cross country trip that you might want to read about.

In 2005, I moved to Cleveland. Now I'm in Portland OR, enjoying the fact that I no longer live in Cleveland.

And finally ... I think I've found my home here in Portland.

I've held a lot of geeky jobs over the years - webmaster, sysadmin, developer, support tech - but now almost all of my time is spent doing PHP and MySQL work. If it involves lots of people, networks, servers, Linux, websites, and/or databases, I'm a quick study.

On the side, I run stolenbicycleregistry.com, which spun off stolenguitarregistry.com and stolenmotorcycleregistry.com. I also run radioactivity.fm. All of these are now under the banner of Frontera Networks, LLC.

I also maintain an old site that can eat up serious amounts of your time. So don't say I didn't warn you. Also, my brother Cory has a fantastic Chicago-based tock band you can listen to.