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About Me

Hey! My name is Louis! I'm 18 years old, and I'm the guy who blogs at this site. It took me a long time to get this blog the way it is now, in fact, this blog has been around since November of 2002. Well, back then it wasn't really a blog.... it was really pathetic. I'd post every few weeks with one or two words. If you're wondering how tall I am right now, I'm about 5'6" or so. You know, give or take a few inches.

What do you know?

I don't really know that much. Right now I'm in a senior in high school, and I know some PHP, enough mySQL to get by, I'm pretty much an expert with XHTML and CSS, I know a tiny bit of javascript, but I never use it because I don't like it, and I know a lot of Flash too, but I'm not into that anymore. Recently in the last couple of years I have been playing World of Warcraft, which has pretty much taken over my life. My main character is Tasai, the Blood Elf Mage, of Arthas. I've recently, however, quit World of Warcraft and am resuming my geeky life. Slowly.

How long have you been making websites?

Well, you might find this a bit strange, but I made my first site when I was about 7 or 8. I don't really count that as a real website, because there was NO content and I used *gasp* frontpage (it pains me to say that word). Yeah, I can't stand the "fp" word. It doesn't use correct HTML. Well, I don't know about it now, because I haven't used it since 2000, but hey, it's made by an evil company, so who cares?

Now what do you use to make websites?

Well, I could really use anything, but I like TextMate the best. No, it's not WYSIWYG. It's just a general editor that can do pretty much any programming language. It even has autocomplete and all sorts of neat little tags. It also has syntax highlighting, which I can't live without :D. If you have a mac, I highly recommend you purchase it. When I'm on Linux, I use Bluefish, which is a neat little HTML and other programming language, like Textmate. When I'm on Windoze, I use Notepad++. It's also free, and really not as good as Bluefish, but it has syntax highlighting, so it's good enough. I used to use TSW Webcoder, but it's not free anymore.

What other sites have you made?

Too many to count, I used to have a site that had many links to all different websites I made, but the hosting company went out of business and I didn't have a local copy (genius) so I lost it. Oh well.

Will you make me a website?

No. Well, not now anyway.