As with most blogs the authors here at the mac universe have a background in the related field. So today I would like to introduce myself. The name is Jake and I currently work as a service technician in the telecom business as both internal support and a telephone support tech. I have been using computers since I was old enough to get into them (about the windows 3.0 period.) I played around a lot in the dos environment as a kid. I got into web dev shortly after windows 98 was introduced and quickly learned a lot of HTML shorthand. After starting high school I delved deeper into hardware and started building my own systems.
Finally in my latter years of high school I got into studying for MCSC and CCNA as well as java programming. Like most fledgling programmers I found it very repetitive and eventually dropped programming and focused mainly on MCSC and CCNA studies. Unfortunately after completing both these course I found the tests way more expensive then what I could handle at the time and pursued a college career. While in college I studied visual basic and relational database but found it very hard to focus considering the first 9 weeks of visual basic was creating a table and a button to close said table in a windows environment. After week two of hello world type visual basic programs and such I ended up dropping out at around 2 credits short of my associates in computer science.
That brings us around to where I am now. I still build systems as an extra source of slush funds and write part time for two tech blogs. Currently I am trying to customize a netbook kernel for distribution for the asus eeePC 1005HA.
