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As you may or may not know, I, the @StorageFreak, have been involved with computing and computers since the eighties. As an aside, I did my first hack in BASICA on MIDWAY.BAS, 'The Battle of Midway', back when I was fourteen-- I was tired of losing half the time to the computer in what I thought was unfair conditions, so I modified the number of figher aircraft I had available to me-- but then I got tired of winning (womp womp). And yes, I was using IBM BASICA and had to performa a BLOAD (binary load) on the source MIDWAY.BAS file in order to do this-- and yes, it was with an IBM PC with 64k on the motherboard.

My apologies, as I'm getting long-winded-- I was first employed at an solid but sassy upstart computer manufacturer based in Austin, Texas in April of 1993. And I've been there ever since (with a slight hiatus in 1996 when I left to work for a school district, and another after a merger where the organizaiton I was in was redundant to the one in MA). Having been rehired both times within 9 months of my departure, I officially have over thirty years at this company, though it's over 31 calendar years since I started.

Well, I've done quite a bit on the technical side-- from my initial year in "Performance" desktop support, due to my experience with my dad's IBM PC, and then over a decade in Enterprise Support, helping customers solve problems with their enterprise servers and storage area network equipment (I served as Level One and then Level Two Support for both Servers and FC and iSCSI SAN equipment and installations). Since then, I've taken on new roles, always technical or leveraging my technical background (Server/NAS/SAN instructor, NPI Program Management, Enterprise Storage and Enterprise Server Sales). My most recent experience has been selling some of the best servers to some of the largest enterprise customers.

So, it's been a while since I've updated the website-- I took the site down when I migrated to containers on all of my websites (I have too many), and just didn't get back around to it, since my focus was on my wife and kids and then work. I did put placeholders like these in, thinking I'd be able to update the websites with the data and continue blogging, but never did. And it was worth it. We just sent our first-born off to Princeton University (yes, that Princeton University), after he scored a 1600 on his SAT. And no, he's not STEM-- he's more of a writer (and already has written an article for the school paper, and is even a member of the Princeton Debate Panel).,

And why do I say all of that? Because I'm a proud dad, and I am going to give you a link to what the site used to have on it. See here, at the Internet Archive, c. 2016.

Perhaps I'll update this soon.