Some stuff about me...

• I grew up in Chickamauga, Georgia. You probably haven't heard of it unless you're a Civil War buff.
• I had the only continuing comic strip in a high-school newspaper in the state of Georgia in the mid-seventies. I discovered this when my journalism teacher tried to nominate me for an award, but found there was none because no one else was doing it.
• I graduated from the Ringling School of Art in 1979. I discovered I was a better photographer than a graphic artist.
• I have a photograph that was accepted into the school's permanent collection.
• After that, I got interested in computer graphics and went back to school for computer programming.
• My first language was IBM 360 assembler.
• My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81. I bought a huge 64k memory expansion for it that cost more than the computer. It took five hours to run a memory-check program on it.
• My first computer job was night operator at Skyland/Buster Brown in Chattanooga. I met my wife Audrey there. She was a cost accountant and her department always threw great parties.
• We were married May 14, 1983. A week later we moved to Atlanta, where I had got a job with the Atlanta Journal and Constitution.
• My daughter Rachel was born in 1986.
• My son Jacob was born in 1989.
• I went to work for Emory Hospitals in 1991 and have been in the health-care world ever since.
• At Emory, I first got the chance to write programs that weren't on a mainframe as part of my job. I wrote some C programs that ran on NetWare and some HyperCard stuff for Macs.
• In 1993, I got a job with Tucson Medical Center and we moved 2200 miles to Arizona.
• In 2002, we moved 2200 miles back east when I took a job with Florida Hospital in Orlando.
• My Slashdot karma is Excellent.