Well, this is my little corner of insanity in an xhtml wrapper. Feel free to browse around, but be warned, there is no warranty or statement of competency, so you really shouldn’t be reading this at all. It’ll rot your brain.
About Shawn Parker
In a nutshell I am:
- a photographer
- a graphic designer
- a web designer
- a web developer
- a Mac geek
- a wannabe unix geek
- getting addicted to paintball
And to get a bit more specific:
Shawn “Wookiee” Parker earned his bachelor’s degree in visual arts with an emphasis in photography from the University of Northern Colorado. After graduating, he moved to southern Colorado and began his career as a photojournalist, where he won a first-place award from the Associated Press for general news photography. Later, he relocated to Denver and started working in pre-press and graphic design while also teaching himself web development. A self-taught programmer, Shawn eventually earned a job as a web designer and developer for a computer hardware and software distributor before joining Crowd Favorite. He now has more than 10 years of experience in graphic design and more than five in web development.
The son of a naval officer, Shawn spent much of his childhood living oversees in England and Holland. Today, he lives in Denver, Colorado. When he’s not obsessing over his Mac, his camera, the Subaru or a piece of cheesecake, he spends his time doting on his wife and two dogs. He also does his part for the environment and rides his bicycle to work every day.
I have a LinkedIn Profile.
Geek Stuff
This site is run from a PowerBook G4, 1.67Ghz named Gipetto (go figure).
The server is running Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” with Apache 2, PHP 5.2.x, and MySQL 4.1.14. Apache, PHP & MySQL install package from MacPorts.
Web Statistics provided by Google Analytics.
PuppyCam software, which hasn’t been running in quite some time, is EvoCam running on, well, running on nothing at the moment…
Site built with Photoshop, Illustrator, skEdit, and most recently with Zend Studio and TextMate.
Search WAS powered by ht://Dig – but the project seems to be dead and I haven’t been able to get it settled on 10.5
Validation Errors
Some pages on this site won’t validate and I’m workin’ on it.
- All Pages: Due to the tags needed to keep htDig out of certain areas I am no longer xhtml compliant. Oh well. The site is compliant aside from these few errors so I’m not gonna fret over it.
- Archive Pages: various issues – haven’t straightened them up yet. Most are character encoding errors – namely ampersands (&).
Geek Code
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GCS/CA/FA d-(---)@>pu s+()>-:()>+ a C+++()$>++++
UBLC*+(++)$>++++ P+(++)@>+++ L++(+++)$>+++++
!E---(----)>--- W+++(+++)$>+++$ !N*(*)>+++
!o--(--)>-- K--? !w---(---)>--- !O M++(++)$>++
V? PS+(+)>$ PE+(++)?>+++ Y+(++)>--$ !PGP-(+)>+++
t+()>---$ !5()> X()>+$ R(+)>++$* tv(+)>-$ b-()?>++
DI+(++)>+++ D+(++)>---$ G(-)@>-- e++(+++)>--$
h-(--)>$ r+++(+++)>+++$ y+++*(++)>+++++@
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
What’s your geek code?
