Weekend

After learning, years ago now, to build and use websites I thought I would pass on what I have learned and how I learned it. Before doing this I want to let a few who may read this know how the heck I came to be here. The trail that led me here I would not have imagined in say, 1955. Black and white TV with the picture coming from an antenna on the roof of our little home north of San Francisco. That is all I knew about WWW back then. It took a war to show me that I was a natural at tech. Not a genius, mind you, but something about making stuff work seemed to suit me.

Let’s just consider the changes that have come to be since 1948. That is seventy-seven years ago and here I am still working but at a different medium than before. The war I mentioned was Vietnam and I went to combat there twice via the U.S. Navy. I was nineteen when I went aboard ship and within nine months I was at war. Surprise, surprise. Didn’t see that coming.

I was a petty officer in charge of the equipment we used for electronic warfare. All quite hush-hush but also more than obsolete by now. That was when I learned tech in the form of chassis, capacitors, resistors, current and amplitude. Computers were used also but they were the size of industrial freezers and used reel to reel tape. Nevertheless, I was intrigued. Seeing those reels whirl as the computers dispensed programs for radar scopes was amazing. This was 1968-1972.

When personal computers came about I bought one within one year in 1999. A TRS-80 from Radio Shack. I switched it from “Basic” to Cobal to make it work for the book keeping I wanted to use it for in my business. That was when I knew that my training in the service was paying off.

Flash ahead to now and you see that this website is just one in a series of instances proclaiming my fascination with all things tech. I don’t know how good I am at any of this but I do make it work given enough time and grit. Sometimes it comes easy and sometimes it comes with grunts and curses. Kind of like life in that regard.

I will place another page here linking a couple of other websites I maintain. If you would like to learn how to install software on a server I have one that will show you how. If you don’t try you won’t know whether you can. All I do is free on the internet. I have no need to charge for having this much fun.