NOTE: This excerpt was a couple years back.

ABOUT ME

Or : I don't want to talk about it.

I suppose most people don't really want their lives to be made public, myself included, 
it is for this reason that this ABOUT ME page will not go into great detail. Partly for 
the sake of privacy and mainly so as not to bore a reader to death.

Age- Can't remember that far back.
Education- Never enough.
Sex- I'm sure I am one or the other.
Marital status- Married, widowed, common law, single.
Dependants- Depends.
Hobbies- I'm probably doing my hobby right now.

I have only been working with computers for five years now, but have spent about 
70 hours per week learning and trying to improve my skills. Everything I have 
learned was either from computer forums or by downloading tutorials.
I have created other web sites other than my own, but have recently found my interests
leading away from web design, and more toward producing graphics for websites and
Logos for companies and products.
At this point my site is called POORMANZ GRAPHIXZ. The reasoning for the name 
is that everything on my system is freeware, and the system I am running is as close to 
free as a person can get.

My current system.

Currently I am running a Dell Optiplex- 350 mhz. 6 ghz. hard drive. Cost- $120.00
14" monitor, cost- $55.00 scanner, cost- $0.00 digital camera, cost- $20.00
Windows 98se. cost- $0.00 All other software on my system, cost $0.00
Total setback, $195.00

Purpose in life-or at least on the internet.

It doesn't always have to cost an arm and a leg to function on the internet,
or to keep a computer running trouble free.
As of this writing I have not had a computer malfunction in over 2 years
I have not had a single pop-up while traveling the internet for over a year.
No viruses can get in through my email, and the reason for this is my attempts
at protecting my system without removing any function. My software 
links will help anyone wishing to do the same.

I hope that some information on my site will prove helpful.
Thanks for stopping by!

The text below was written 4 years ago.

It all began about one year ago when we purchased our first computer, a Pentium 166 with Windows 95 a 2 gigabyte hard drive and 32 megabyte extended memory. The system came without a modem, and so the problems began. We were satisfied to play games on our system for the first month but this thrill quickly wore itself thin and now it was time to go into the realm of the internet, a scary place for new arrivals but we wanted to take the journey all the same, no matter what the consequences. We had two different types of slot formats inside of the system so of course the first modem I purchased would have to follow Murphy's Law "all that could go wrong will go wrong" and so it does, it would not function with the system, so back again and exchange it for the other type, aha the computer accepts it but now to configure it, no problem I'll just CRASH THE SYSTEM yes Mister smartass managed to freeze everything up so bad that even the frost had frost on it. So off I go dragging that rectangular box back to the place of purchase with only one word to say upon arrival "HELP!!!!". They were very good about everything and didn't even snicker about how inept I was, at least not to my face. Approximately two weeks later after a reinstallation of the operating system and the modem and any driver files that were needed my rectangular box was ready to be discharged after I paid the $100.00 hospital bill. Well there I was Online it was quite the experience to travel to places that I could have never imagined would be out there. There was allot out there Websites and viruses and popups and E-mail and viruses and Picture sights and viruses and popups and advertising and me but I just kept traveling around without a care until I CRASH THE COMPUTER yes I managed to do it one more time. Due to the $100.00 hospital bill for my box just two weeks earlier I was determined to cut these expenses by taking a first aid course, I came to the conclusion that if I could get back online one last time I would spend all my time and energy learning survival techniques in keeping my computer breathing even in a vacuum. I was given a shiny round spinning thing that if put into the popout coffee cup holder "C.D.Rom" would reinstall Windows 95 but now if I delete everything how do I keep my coffee cup holder to continue to operate, I'll try something, since I was still able to get into Windows in Safe-mode I began deleting everything I could except Windows itself so one more bright idea, I didn't want to install Windows again while there was still another form of Windows already on the hard drive, the system did not let me delete it but it did let me rename it so (Windows became Windblows and System became Stickit and Program Files became Frogman Files) and so it went. While still in safe mode I was able to do the impossible and put the shiny thing in the coffee-cup holder, but of course in steps MURPHY'S LAW and apparently I did not have CDrom support, so now what. I had one other tool that for some reason I did bring down from the internet that was called a Boot Disk and so I gave it a try in my floppy drive but all it seemed to do was called me a name "Banana" with a drive letter "N" I have no drive letter "N" so I shut everything down and called it a night believing that I would have to once again drag my rectangular box back to the place of purchase with two words to say Help again. During my near sleepless night I had a revelation, what if this thing called a Boot Disk was trying to temporarily assign me a drive letter, wouldn't that be the cat's buttocks. Well it was, and after typing in "N" after the "A" prompt my coffee-cup holder with the shiny round thing inside of it began to spin, and there it was "This will install Windows 95 on your computer do you wish to continue? well you can guess what my response was, at least now I understand why the Boot Disk felt compelled to call me a "Banana". Well all worked well and I have gone on to CRASH my computer a minimum of ten times since, each time believing I've grown a little wiser but I will leave that up to others to decide.