The Official Introduction Thread.

[ukgimp]

Welcome marcela. You will get used to the swear filter.

:-)

[Rumbas]

Hi Marcela, good to see you here! Long time since I've seen your nick online

[ergophobe]

Geez... looking at the list of people here I'm wondering who got me mixed up with the other guy and let me in!

I'm actually still a historian for most of my time, publishing books on obscure topics.

Those of you who recognize me would know me mostly from coding-oriented forums on WMW. I moderated the PHP forum for a while with jatar_k and coopster. Got tired of it and quit forums for a a couple of year, but then was in Vegas for other reasons during Pubcon. Dinner with a few of my WMW buddies and I ended up moderating the Content Management forum there. Lately I've been finding it harder and harder to read and participate at WMW.... Tedster know my reasons in excessive detail (sorry Ted).

I built my first site in 1997 to get some course materials online. From there, revived my programming skills (did some programming in another life) and learned PHP to put my research database online a year or two later. Then built an e-commerce site for the Sierra Club Bookstore (RIP) and since then have dabbled here and there. Have honestly never done anything that made serious money online. Whitehat only because I don't know any better (like I say, who let me in???).

Left the city in 2002 to live in Yosemite National Park. Will trade fine lodging for instruction in the finer points of spamming ;-)
http://yosemitehouse.com

Tom

[jetboy]

Nice place Tom. Very jealous.

[dougs]

Pretty spot Tom.......may take you up on that offer:)

How is the weather?

Doug

[ergophobe]

How is the weather?

Current forecast at the house
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.644684587165884&lon=-119.73861694335938&site=hnx&smap=1&marine=1&unit=0&lg=en

You probably don't want to hurry over, but if this keeps up, skiing will be epic this year (have been out 4 times so far).

[Rupert]

I was wondering when  you would show up Tedster, good to see you

[anallawalla]

I finally got an invite to this place. Good to see some of the old names no longer seen at WMW as well as some I saw at Pubcon last month and in past years.

I'm Ash Nallawalla from Melbourne - 7 years accountant in NZ, 8 years Australian air farce, and 20 years mostly in large corporations as a product marketer and a search marketer for the past eight. I am presently consulting to a large group of banks and resemble a mod at WMW.

[Woz]

Welcome Ash!

Good to see you here.

[Suzy]

Hi, another here thinking I've landed in a time warp.. it's great to see everyone! and thanks for invite Woz

Claire or more commonly known as Suzy to you guys, answer to both.. newer nick around is ClaireSuzy trying to join myself back up haha - from Bonny Scotland!

member @ a lot of forums out there but am by nature quite shy, most prolific on WMW and have only recently started taking part again after a good year or so off

been around since about 1999, when I also became a mum, still dabbling away but got a serious case of burnout after a few things went pear shaped, but back on track and feeling fit and healthy and grateful for each day as it comes.. I often see you guys around but I'm not much of a social networker so my apologies

I'm doing a bit of WAHM (non-IT) stuff with regular income just to keep the wolf from the door (Hubby business has been seriously affected by crisis) - and a bit of community stuff to get into the outside world, have stopped watching the news, can't take any more world crap - am dipping toes into a bit of affiliate stuff, two different types of site to see which works for me - hope at least one of them do - but very lightweight as have just taken another temporary job 'til April  - job no. 3 - life is nothing if not varied at the minute

Great to see you all!

[ukgimp]

Nice to see you Claire.

[jetboy]

Good to hear you're back in the saddle Claire.

[Woz]

You're welcome Suzy, er, Claire, um, whoever you are.  Glad to see you here.

[Rumbas]

Good to see you both Claire and Ash - familiar nicks

[ergophobe]

Ash and Claire! My goodness, who's still minding the store at WMW?

Claire, I was surprised to see you post a hard-core CSS topic on hiding content with clip and it made me wonder if we'd see more of you again... just didn't expect it would be here.