April 23, 2007 at 12:25 pm
· Filed under Blogging, Hosting, Internet
Many months ago I was tagged by Mitch of the Web Hosting Show to reveal 5 things you don’t know about me. Who am I? I am still trying to figure that one out, but I’ll be glad to share what I know. However, I will still try and preserve the mystique around the true identity of the Web Hosting Finds Guy Behind the Scenes. Don’t worry, I’m not famous, but hey, let’s create some suspense!
First, my apologies Mitch, for taking so long. I have actually had this in my WordPress draft for many months. This year has been insane and I have finally gotten a handle on my work load (now we’ll find out if the boss actually reads these posts).
For those of you who are unfamiliar with Mitch Keeler, I’ll give you a quick summary. Mitch is the guy who makes the potentially boring web hosting industry interesting, funny and entertaining. Nuff said.
Okay here goes…
I am an avid online pc gamer. I bought my first pc back in the 90’s for word processing when I was still hanging onto the hope of being a fiction writer. It wasn’t long before I discovered flight sims and first person shooters. I wrote pc game reviews for online gaming sites for a while, which was kind of cool but didn’t pay well. Anyway, I think I put in about an hour each night fragging away my competitors in Half-Life 2. It’s a major stress reliever and it’s kind of interesting to see gaming technology evolve and become more interesting over the years.
In case anyone has mistaken my enthusiasm for skill, I am by no means an expert on web hosting. I have just had a lot of bad web hosts along the way that forced me to ask questions and learn what is important in web hosting and what is not.
I love spicey food, especially the asian varieties: Thai, Indonesian, Malaysian, Indian, etc. I can usually take any degree of heat that is thrown at me. I met my match when I asked a Thai restaurant for 20 star curry. The cook actually came out to see if I was still alive.
I worked in the billing trouble support department for a disturbing number of years for a (now defunct) major telecommunications company. Why do I mention this? I want you to know that when I speak of boredom in the corporate world, I speak from experience and great, great authority.
I have fantasies about working in one of those windowless, air-conditioned datacenters. There are people in there and they are getting paid to do something right? I have a theory that maybe they are playing pc games.
If you guys below haven’t already done this and want to continue the 5 things meme, please do:
Brian at The Code Cave
Harvey at RagePank
Jeff at Phraction
Kokul at Kokul’s World
Dave at Earthling
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