Pete’s Vitals

I am currently between jobs, having spent nine years as the Technical Editor for CADENCE magazine, then a year as an editor with Game Developer magazine and Gamasutra.com. I’ve used AutoCAD since (Release 12), and enjoy James Bond, science fiction, coding XHTML by hand, and gadgets of any size. I’ve driven a D7 bulldozer, a backhoe, learned how to drive a stick-shift—on a 7-ton dump truck on soft ground—and even sat in the XO’s seat of something much larger, even though I wasn’t really supposed to be there…

PushBack.com was the second Web site I ever developed, and it is getting a little bit long in the tooth. It was initially hand-coded, but spent most of its life created in FrontPage, and has now come full-circle. I decided to go back to hand-editing to provide better control, allow more flexibility in this redesign, and allow the site to be made 100% standards-compliant.

Fluff

Bazooka Joe Sayings

I used to work just around the corner from Max’s Diner in San Francisco, and unfortunately got in the habit of eating there regularly (the door says “This is a bad place for a diet”). They always give you one piece of Bazooka Joe Bubblegum with your check, and the gum’s wrapper contains a comic strip with a number of different sayings printed below it. I ate there often enough to collect all of these sayings…

This page was last modified on Monday, 22-Nov-2004 12:58:20 PST.

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My other sites The Palo Alto Amateur Radio Association One of the oldest ham clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area (founded in 1937), PAARA draws 50‒100 people to its monthly meetings, and installs an impressive antenna farm with multiple crank-up towers for its participation in the annual Field Day emergency-preparedness exercise. 9amtalk.net A low-key Web site that serves as a home for a community of local amateur radio operators that gather on a 2-meter repeater most weekday mornings for some friendly discussions. www.bearcats.org Bearcats are past and present students of San Mateo High School, in San Mateo, California. They include such notable celebrities as Barry Bostwick, Merv Griffen, Kris Kristofferson, Alicia Silverstone, and yours truly. petesguide.com I call this “Pete’s Guide to Technology…and everything else”, and I designed it as a platform to help me advance the state-of-the-art and usability of computers, the Web, and many other areas of technology and everyday life.