Hello, world (again)
Why I'm keeping a homepage again, and how the timeline files away old memories without lying about when I wrote them.
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Leaving Schnucks, after seven and a half years
My first real job out of high school, the grocery company that took a chance on a kid who had won a website contest. What I will miss most is the people.
Read entry →Bakery clerk takes a trip around the World Wide Web
How a high-school web-design competition got me, an 18-year-old bakery clerk, an internship in the corporate IT department. With the company newspaper clipping to prove it.
Read entry →What running DragonSiblings taught me
A message board I started in high school that grew to 108 members and almost 29,000 posts. It was my first real lesson in databases, hosting, and looking after a community.
Read entry →Extended Break
In 2003 I downloaded a free game called Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and fell in with a clan called Extended Break. I stayed for years, ended up a general, helped run the place, and captained the team while we climbed the ladder. Here is who we were.
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