Hi! Thanks for taking the time to visit my web site. I hope you find it fun and informative. This site has developed over the years, albeit a long time between updates and even longer between major overhauls. In the past I have mainly tried to make it a convenient place for me to start from for my uses of the Internet. In this version, it will continue to serve that purpose, but I hope that it will also serve as a more useful place for people other than myself. I have used DHTML and JavaScript to achieve a polished appearance while keeping the downloads small, so be sure to use the latest browser available to you. If you have problems with it under your browser, please send me an e-mail with a specific description of the problem, and I will try to fix it. Enjoy the site!

When people ask me what my interests are, I really don't quite know how to respond, because I can't really claim to be someone who is really passionate about much of anything. At least not about any one thing for a very long time. However, I think that the best way to measure someone's interests is to examine how they spend their disposable time. Using that method, my interests are easy to identify.

I spend a lot of my free time at my computer. Much (too much) of it is spent on Black Isle Studios roll playing games Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate II, and Icewind Dale. Occasionally I need the release of a mindless first-person shooter. In those situations the game of choice is Unreal Tournament, but Quake III Arena will do as well. When I'm not lost in some computer game somewhere, I'm usually working on my web site or messing around with my Linux server.

But there is a life beyond computers, and when that's the life I'm living I enjoy activities such as volunteering at Grace Church Roseville as a sound technician for the Face to Face service, attending large group meetings of Macalester Christian Fellowship as a volunteer, reading science fiction or fantasy novels, and visiting with friends.

I receieved my bachelor's degree at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in May 2000. My official degree is Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, with a Computer Science major and Music minor.

My secondary education is from Red Rock Central High School, in Lamberton, Minnesota. I graduated as valedictorian of the Class of 1996. I was highly involved in band, choir, academic decathlon, and setting up the computer network.

I have no immediate plans for graduate school, but am still considering the possibility of returning to the classroom to obtain a graduate degree in Computer Science.

On March 26, 2001, I began working full time at Honeywell Laboratories as a Scientist/Engineer I, which more simply put is a first-level computer programmer, currently in C++ and a little bit of Perl. However, nondisclosure agreements rule the day, and I can't really say any more about what I'm doing there.

Prior to accepting employment at Honeywell I held a number of part time jobs during and around my time as a student at Macalester College. The most important of these was my job at RRCNET, which I have been involved with since its inception in 1996. RRCNET provided me with a lot of practical experience with Novell Netware, Digital Alpha, RedHat Linux, and Bay Networks Remote Access Servers. Additionally, I did some programming, mostly in Perl.

If you would like to contact me, I would love to hear from you (unless you're a solicitor trying to sell me something, in which case your use of this information will be considered rude, and you will be abused to the best of my ability):