About Me

Quick History

  • Raised in Seffner, Florida.
  • Lived in same house from age 2 until I left for school.
  • Attended grades 1-10 in Tampa. Yep, same school all 10 years.
  • Attended boarding academy near Orlando for grades 11 and 12.
  • Spent first two college years in Tennessee.
  • Finished last two college years in Michigan.
  • Graduated in 1992 with a Bachelor of Technology in Media Technology/Media Communication.
  • After graduation, obtained an internship back in central Florida and am now a full-time worker at the same office.
  • I now reside a few miles west of downtown Orlando having moved from Altamonte Springs, north of Orlando, in 2005.

A Few Things I Enjoy

Esteemed Colleagues

I serve as web editor with About This Particular Macintosh. Besides monitoring comments posted to the pages and keeping up with the links pages, I check for rendering mistakes in each issue’s HTML edition before it goes public. I’ve also contributed a number of articles, reviews, and desktop wallpaper images over the years.

My Computer History

Sometime around 8th or 9th grade, my parents bought a Commodore VIC-20 as my first computer, not counting my old Atari 2600. A Commodore 64 followed soon after which was traded for a C-128 in exchange for me doing a few chores for my old elementary school. I’d previously been involved in the BBS community until after college. Once I moved into an apartment and actually owned a phone line, I began my internet addiction using the C-128 with a 2400 baud modem an a Linux shell account from Orlando Online. My first e-mail address was bennett@oo.com.

Since that time, I progressed through a Performa 577 (the first Mac I personally owned, though I had, of course, used Macs during college), followed by a PowerBook 3400, a PowerBook G3 (Pismo model), a 1GHz 15″ Titanium PowerBook G4, and then a 2.2GHz 15″ MacBook Pro which is my current computer.

October 2003, I purchased a 450MHz G4 to use as a server. It held multiple hard drives for things like my iTunes library (accessed via networking), my personal photo albums, and general storage that could be accessed remotely. I’ve since moved the iTunes library to a portable USB hard drive (much faster than through networking). As soon as Apple announces an update to the Mac mini line, I’m going to purchase one to replace the noisy G4 tower and have some peace and quiet in my den! I’ll remove the hard drives, put them in enclosures, and attach them to the mini. This means that the pages should appear much more quickly since the database processing will be done on a much faster CPU.

At work, I have progressed through a IIci, a 300MHz G3, a dual 800MHz G4, and currently a quad 2.5GHz G5 upgraded to 4.5MB of memory and a total of 500GB of hard drive space (250 per drive).

I used to occasionally mention my pride of being a Macintosh user by the fact that I own a custom license plate that reads, well, MAC-USER! It’s sort of surprising to admit to myself that I’m thinking I might give it up soon if I come up with something new and better. Any ideas?

Communication

Need to hail me? Place my middle name in front of this web site's domain, and you'll have an address.

I also use several instant message protocols: Yahoo!, AOL, ICQ, MSN, Skype, and GTalk. Ask me about my usernames.

No, that's not a Photoshop job. There really is an intersection sharing my name!