About Me
I’m a software engineer living in (presently very snowy) Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. I currently do a great deal of my work in PHP with a MySQL database. It’s not just GUI work with dynamic websites, thought, it’s some more heavy lifting than rendering HTML… SOA, back end systems, financial data, large amounts of data… that kind of fun stuff. So it is that I often run into (and hence write about) issues stemming from using what originated as a language for counting page hits for something a little more heavy duty.
When I’m not blabbin’ about boring tech crap, I’m into music, both listening and composing, books, hiking, good beer, the Cold War (for some reason), and cooking. Actually, that’s not even all of it; I’m like a little kid in a knowledge candy store – I’m constantly dropping one thing to learn about something else. My latest jag has been meteorology. It just so happens that we’re (as I type this) in the middle of an epic snowstorm, the kind of thing that with any luck will only occur once in a lifetime. At least I hope so – I cannot muster enough strength to keep shoveling the driveway.
I started Ruminant Nation as a place to share some of the random things I picked up either at work or via my personal diversions. It’s been slow going of late, mostly because I’ve been so busy actually working, I haven’t had the mental capacity to write about it when I wasn’t solving problems. I do apologize for the lack of content, but at least that’s better than reading the blog of some douchebag that can write about any old stupid thing because he never actually does anything difficult.
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