While in DC and visiting so many museums, my imagination and curiosity was piqued on a number of occasions. Living in my programmer / consultant / marketer's brain for such long stretches of time really starts to divorce you from interesting reading material. Last year I made a special point to read a number of seminal science fiction books (Ender's Game series, Snowcrash, Neuromancer, et cetera) and I hope to read a bunch more this year. From DC I picked up a few, and you can probably guess where I got each. Here they are, click the photos of the ...
This post marks a very important point in time in my blogging career. I began what is now called "blogging" in April of 2001 with very basic posts like this one, about a month before the end of my sophomore year at Purdue. I was writing more for myself than anything else. I had produced a series of websites on my personal web space during high school (1998-1999) and into my freshman year of college (1999-2000). Over the summer of 2000 when I was taking summer school at Purdue, I had began tinkering with Linux, PHP, MySQL, and making dynamic ...