In true geek blogging obsession/narcissism, I have decided to blog the restoration of my 1890 San Francisco Victorian home at www.sanfranvic.com. Its going to be a long journey and I’ve decided to document it for my friends, family, and any future owner of the house.

It should be interesting to learn what goes into an old house like this one, where it came from, and where its going. Although I have a lot of experience engineering and building many many things, this is my first home restoration. So follow along with me, learn from my mistakes, and try not to yourself like I am going to. Enjoy!

I recently wrote a letter to the editor of the Roundel Magazine, published by the BMW Car Club Of America, about my friend JP Cadoux at A1 Imports Autoworks in an effort to get the word out about what he does. I am kinda surprised they actually published considering I wrote in a serious manner but frustrated after reading silly articles about carbon fiber, xenon headlights, and other useless do-dads. Nevertheless, here it is.

In an effort to the use social media to gain more publicity for the fantastic work that JP does we created this video and posted it on YouTube. Within the first day it recieved a few thousand views and was honored for two weeks on the site. It generated a lot of buzz on the Internet and was picked up by Jalopnik.com due to an anonymous tipster (myself). Here is a link to the post.

I have had so many sites over the years and Im really sick of it! I finally have one site that I am happy with, serves its purpose, and is easily updatable. Although I am mostly a Java engineer, PHP is where I came from. There’s a right tool for ever job and this site is no exception. Wordpress is a great little app and suits its job well. It even loosely follows a pseudo type of tiles MVC system.

Just in case I get bored of the look I can always modify the view via CSS. Although this site doesnt validate due to Wordpress, its strict XHTML. Although tables are great for tabular data and I still believe in them this site is a table-less design.

I created this way back in Junior year of college for a class in which I was doing somewhat mediocre due to my lack in the introductory level discussions. Yea, yea. Anywho, I’ve been tuning and tweaking it on a off over time, but here it is. Please dont sue me for the use of copyrighted works. It was for school.

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This is the final Flash thing that I made for my site. I am not sure why I carried on so long. I guess its because Flash was, at the time, the “flashiest” way to get your message across. I gotta say, it got me some business but its pretty out of date. Nevertheless, is some of my better work and it took many long hours to produce.

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While digging through all my old files to try and create this blog I came across this Flash site I never launched. I remember when all the Flash buzzed died I decided to tone down my site but I guess I never got around to launching it.

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When I was a Sophomore in college my guidance counselor contacted me for a job. Turned out to be a pretty cool gig and I learned a lot, not just about Flash, but consulting with a larger firm. This was definitely one of my better experiences and they were very sure on what they wanted which is very rare in the consulting business. It took me a total of about 100 hours which is pretty good considering its size. I’d love to do another one but I just dont have the time.

This is one of my first Flash works and I am still very proud of it. Its always hard to create something usable while your learning it for the first time. Flash is very powerful, yet convoluted language involving multiple events at different points in time. Now that I have moved more in the way of engineering I am going to star to learn Flex.

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Lucky for me, I have saved a lot of my work from the past to help remind me of who I was and what I have learned since then. So what did this teach me? Hmm.. that I should probably stick to architecture and engineering ;).