About Me

A native Floridian I moved to the Piedmont region of North Carolina in 1990. After graduating from High Point University my wife and I chose to settle in High Point. I currently work for Air Power, a company with a deep history in High Point and well respected in the industrial tool industry.

I have always been in the information business. Starting in high school by studying lithography and various aspects of the graphics trade. I would go on to become a very proficient press-operator, unknowingly following the generations of men in my family before me. In the early 1990s I came to realize that the pace of change in the information field was increasing. I was doing more pre-press and composition work on a computer, and Xerox had recently delivered a machine that could do my job (at a significantly higher per-sheet cost). There were two paths before me: one, additional training to pursue fewer opportunities in traditional information sharing; or two, additional education to participate in the future of information sharing. I haven't touched a printing press since 1994.

About This Site

I believe in the concepts behind HTML. The idea that information can be displayed anywhere, on any device, in nearly any format (appearance), and link other information with the ease and openness not found in traditional forms of information sharing. It is open. It encourages sharing. It accomodates obscurity.

The concept of domain names however is something I believe is one of the main problems with the Internet. They're like vanity license plates on cars - you can only have one per state, you pay a premium for them, and lose out if you don't get one early. We are comfortable with the majority of cars being identified with random plates, why not organizations? I have started, maintained, and forgotten about several sites on the Internet - even hosting my own domain on a PC running in my house for a time.

One day organizations will be comfortable giving up their vanity plates and host their sites on collective servers. Merely a members of domains of like sites. Relying on the power of searching and their reputations to be found. That's where this site comes in. This site is merely a member of a domain of like sites - individual sites of people with similar interests or needs.