Hi Dien and Michael and all,

I don't even recall how I got here the other night (it was actually about 5AM), but I'm glad I did! This is quite the unique place. I enjoyed the stories from the links on the sowpub index page and relate with Gordon Alexander's 'Small Potato' and Linda Caroll's (she does beautiful work) "Queen of Hearts".

I suppose I should tell you a little bit about myself. I've been making my living on the web as a web dev/virtual host/domain name gamer/ for almost 5 years. I've taught a lot of kids from 9 and up web dev and some Unix sys admin. It's easy to teach kids web stuff being they learn super fast and leave me in the dust:-) Nah, actually they come back and teach me a few tricks.

I see you encourage people to post stories. I may write my story here if I can keep it from becoming a book. I think you may find it more amusing than beneficial, though. I'm not too comfortable with writing and am finally working on that. I do sometimes write documentation for open source projects. I'm good at that because I'm an 'eternal newbie':-)

Best wishes,
Barbara Camisa