About Myself
I've been on the internet since 1993, the year we came back from Spain. Stu, a kind man from my parents' church, donated a top-of-the-line Macintosh Performa 575 to our family. Originally we used a 1200 baud modem to dial up to AOL as houxle@aol.com. In the high school library, my brother and I used Archi and Veronica to find the hottest gopher files. I created the first version of this web site when I received a UNIX account for e-mail as a freshman in college. Having a unique username and being an early adopter, my webpage would appear near the top of a Google search for "takoyaki" for a year or so after it debuted. When the school account was deactivated the summer after I graduated in 2001, I moved my account to UGCS. I learned perl during my senior year, which I used to create small web-based tools like a bookmark page, a message board and a scheduler. I dabble in web design, coding to web accesibility standards using XHTML and cascading style sheets (CSS).