About
This site is something of an experiment. The content is focused mostly around electronics. Specifically, the kind of electronics that a first or second year college student would learn. A college student from the 90's that is. I have a degree in Electronics Engineering Technology. However, I've never actually worked in the electronics field. I graduated and went to work in the IT field.
Over the last several years I've become nostalgic about the things I learned back in school - learned but have long forgotten. Sure, I remember the basics. I can still identify most components - resistors, capacitors, inductors and so on. And I remember Ohm's Law. But that's about it. So, I've decided to break out the books and re-learn what I've forgotten. The website is a means of documentation. It helps me retain information if I write it down and a website is as good a medium as any.
As far as the experiment part - well - I'm by no means a programmer or developer as the case may be. So, the experiment comes in the form of me trying to build a website using php, css and javascript. I have never written an original line of code in my life. I just scour the Internet for snippets of code that may be useful and then modify them to get the result I'm looking for. Sometimes it works - sometimes it doesn't.
The other content consists of old skool Windows System Administration and general computer tech topics. I say old skool because I no longer work in Systems support. My current job is strictly network - routing and switching (although mostly switching - I'm more of a layer two kind of guy) - wireless and phones (IP and analog). So, the System Admin content will end with Windows Server 2016 since that's the last version I used. And probably go back to the days of MS-DOS 5.0. On the network side - there will be some Cisco content but my current job is 100% Juniper so there will be more Juniper content over time.
Asthetics. You might be looking at the website and asking yourself - What the hell is this guys damage? What can I say? I'm not a developer and I'm definitely not a designer. I'm not sure what time period my site would fall in to but I'm guessing late 90's or early 2000's. As far as the color scheme - I don't really know. All I can say is - I'm a fan of the Vision from the Avengers. NOT the movies. The comics. Let me clarify - I liked the movies but I collected Marvel comics for 20 years - from 1980 to the year 2000. And I like The Vision from the comics. His costume was yellow and green. So, I'm guessing that's where the color scheme came from.
