Man, I'm old.

Geez -- I feel like the "old guy". All you young whippersnappers don't remember the day when we didn't have tables or css!!!

 Anyway, enough of that silliness...

My name is Daniel and I have about a dozen different jobs. And about 20 hobbies. And a wife. And two kids. And dog and bird (actually, the bird is my daughter's). Mortgage? Yes. Two car payments. All that suburbanite jazz. At least they're not SUVs.

I like writing code, but I like thinking about writing code and figuring stuff out even more.

Passion is the single most important character trait a person can own. If you Love something, you will learn all you can about it; embrace it; grow from it.

I am a small business owner. My wife and I do all sorts of graphic design work and we produce advertising specialties and miscellaneous printed collateral for (mostly) small businesses. I also do a lot of software development and website dev and provide consultative/contract webmaster services for several sites.

I also work as a full-time software engineer for a large bank, developing what amounts to "online pc banking software" but for commercial clients with big bucks who spend north of a few million dollars a year with their credit cards (some spend a few million a day!).

I have a strong passion for pretty much anything I do. We'll see if I can keep up with this site -- I haven't found a tool like this that's been able to keep my interest, but this one has promise.

Some of my hobbies include writing shareware, drawing, working on a video game with my son, working on a movie with my daughter, playing with my dog, traveling with my family, going to movies with my wife, woodworking, cooking, and reading.

My interests are varied -- everything from music to astronomy to robot design. I enjoy reading business books -- especially books that turn thinking on its ear. I've been on a 'self-improvement' kick, having just read GTD, E-myth, Micro-ISV, Raving Fans and others, but I think I'm about to switch modes to business bios and "manifesto"-type titles (Cluetrain or Long Tail comes to mind).

I've rambled long enough, so I'll sign off for now. Perhaps I'll follow up with more stuff when I think of it.

 -dH 

Thanks a bunch for the support!

I wrote this last night. It's sort of an essay on making a Web 2.0 app. We seem to be having lots of those quests, so I wanted to share a little of my personal philosophy.

I'm not entirely certain that posting a link to my Otavo blog on the Otavo forum is not link spamming for points, so I'm posting it to my own intro thread. I won't be posting it as a StoreMark to any Quests, but y'all are certainly welcome to! ;-)