Willkommen. You are visiting the personal space of Stickrod. This weblog, journal, online diary (call it what you like) is not focused on any one subject, although it tends to tilt to the geeky. This website serves as an interesting link archive, thought warehouse and utter and complete time waster.

I currently reside in metropolitan Chicago with my beautiful and wonderful wife Catherine where we take full advantage of the plethora of culture outside our door. We enjoy the exquisite culinary, architectural and art scene in the Windy City. If not traipsing around the city we enjoy traveling and occasionally snapping photos.

I’m a technology freak as evidenced by a historical propensity to gather an absurd quantity of computers and related periphery. I have since begun the process of embracing a minimalist life style ridding myself of almost all equipment.

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I started with this domain in September 2002 and left it stark naked and stagnate for quite a long time. I messed around with .NET Nuke and Movabletype before finding the superb CMS WordPress. Abundant plugins and extensions hold it all together. This site is built and maintained with Dreamweaver and Fireworks MX, Filezilla and hosted on a box at Dreamhost. If you are looking for reliable hosting tell them Stickrod sent you. Development happens via Xampp on a trusty Dell Optiplex.