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My last three semesters needed some spice so I decided to work part-time at the Statistics computer labs. It was a tutoring/lab monitor/tech support job, but the students who pranced into the lab thought I was some sort of a higher-order being and called me "professor". Ok, maybe not everyone. Only the younger students did.

My new job kept me from being a library hermit and it opened the doors of web design. One day, a confused student came into the lab asking me about HTML. I thought in my head, "Hmmmm … HTML? Qu'est que c'est?" Just remember, this was around the time when Hotmail first came out. Web design was a foreign topic to me and this drove me to learn about it.

I went ahead and tried to create my three-page website, thanks to Netscape and Geocities. Then something inside me sparked, and it lit a fire. Indeed, it was love at first site! A new love affair began to bloom.     » read more