About
"About Me" pages have always been my least favorite part of making web sites. I think these pages need to share the right amount so that people can learn a little about you, but not so much as to bore them. I decided the best way to do this is to make a list outlining my life.
Basically, I...
- ...am a 28 year old living in Louisville, KY.
- ...have also lived in Ohio, Connecticut, and Hawai'i.
- ...went to a small elementary school in Ohio with my fiancee, but didn't necessarily know each other. We each moved to two others states before meeting.
- ...used to have a 5-speed Yellow Jeep Wrangler with a 4" suspension lift, 33" SuperSwamper Thornbird tires, and black wheels. I miss it a lot.
- ...recycle.
- ...am a very laid back person.
- ...was first introduced to computers by my grandpa back in the late 1980's with the game Mixed-Up Mother Goose.
- ...first used the Internet in 1995 with dial-up, provided by AOL. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. At the time.
- ...also remember when I first started using the Internet, that they were tying to publish directories - similar to phone books - with all the web pages online. We all know how good of an idea that turned out to be.
- ...now have my B.S. in Computer Information Systems and am working as a technical support analyst.
- ...was stationed on a U.S. Navy Submarine for four years. Don't feel bad - I was stationed in Pearl Harbor, HI.
- ...have visited about 35 states and want to visit all 50 someday.
- ...love being outdoors.
- ...have cut way back on the amount of coffee I drink, but it's still my favorite beverage.
- ...still don't like wearing pants. Those that knew me in high school and college, know I used to wear shorts in the snow and below-freezing temperatures. I still do.
I am very easily entertained and cannot think of the last time I was bored.
Technical Stuff
GeoffreyShilling.com is powered by WordPress. I started with the default WordPress theme as a foundation, but there isn't much left of it, except maybe some element names. It's actually fun to see what you can do with CSS. This site doesn't use any tables; all formatting is done using CSS. If you don't know what CSS is, you probably don't care about this section anyways. The editor I use for all the coding is Bare Bones' TextWrangler text editor; it's free and it works great. I use MAMP: Mac - Apache - MySQL - PHP as a local server, for all my testing.