When I am not holding my breath for Google or AV's next update, you'll find me dangling from rock's in WV's new river gorge, Seneca rocks, or NY's Shawangunks...

How bout everybody else? And how bout you Jim, what do you do for fun?

How did you get into it?

I spend time with my son. He is growing up so fast it is frightening. Movies, shopping, shooting, Scouting, and talking about politics and other unreal aspects of life.

And I write. I love writing the Gazette and the various articles and tutorials that are stuck all over JimWorld.

And trying to keep ahead of you folks to have new tools ready when you need them.

Believe it or not, I got my first web job on the basis of that site and a pro-bono site design (the site never went live) I did.

I'm from the Northeast so I spent most of my time pumping plastic with a side of bouldering, but I was never any good. Even so, I miss it a bunch and hope to someday get back up there. I've been satiating my appetite for the mountains by hiking the 50 highpoints, but it's just not the same.

PS. I was down at Seneca Rocks a couple years ago and it just about broke my heart not to be able to get some climbing in... that place is gorgeous.

Seneca is great, and it is beautiful, also great fishing when you are done for the day...best view is from the top of the rocks...I too have been away from it for about a year...but thanks to SEforums business is doing well enough where I can get away for a week at a time again to start climbing again, only problem is now I suck at it cause I'm out of shape...lol...

But I think it's neat you got my name

I have seen terms similar that mean message boards is that what it is?

From the early 90s onwards, people could set up their home computers to become a BBS using software (my favourites were Remote Access and RoboBBS) - other computers can then dialup the BBS and exchange files, messages etc. The good old days of ANSI graphics, and FidoNET messaging system...

AOL used to be a BBS - a husband and wife team with 100 modems, which has since evolved to become the giant it is today.

Earlier in life, when everything functioned at 100%, I did a lot of hiking. I was at Acadia National Park in Maine and did a "first ascension" hike once. When my feet refused to move, and my hands gripped the rock til the knuckles were white, and my throat kept making this weird moaning sound...well that's when I realized I had a little fear of heights.

I did manage to climb Mt. St. Helens--once it was opened up as a safe hike after the famous eruption--and stand at the rim for 3 minutes before I was ready to head down for lower ground!

Then there was the time at Angel's Peak Wilderness area near Albuquerque New Mexico. I was on a "footpath" to the canyon floor, and it literally was a footpath, room for a foot, meaning one at a time with drop offs to either side. I told my hiking partners I was going to sit down and take in the beauty of the area from a slightly wider area a few hundred feet back, advising then not to go to far ahead, because I wouldn't be catching up!

Now, the only time my fear of heights plagues me is when I go skiing or when I do aerial moves when I'm Lindy Hopping.

Anybody else want to share their hobbies?

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That was in 1996 and its been fast forward ever since!

I am a golf course hacker (who has regrettably only played 2 games in the last 12 months, being otherwise occupied in front of my computer) and bike rider (do a bit more of this though)

OAC

I did that site for free with a commission on any sales generated. The site did so well that I though I would try to build web sites professionally so I did and here I am . Steep learning curb is all I have to say!

I buy more domains and make more sites!

Don't you think that your income is directly proportional to the number of domains/sites that you have?

In 1995, I was playing games on a telnet server when people started clamoring for help with html. I bought an html3 book and started messing around with forms. In 1996, I put up my first personal site.

Web-design fit neatly into my business at the time, which was supporting small businesses. I started whipping up sites as parts of new contracts. Steep learning curve to say the least: It's all learning. I made about 18 business sites, 11 of which are still up in something like their first form. At least 4 are totally defunct, like the businesses behind them. I also learned C++, Perl, and Java, so I never stuck just to html. Later on, I worked for an ISP to learn about networking. Being well-rounded was my goal.

Right now, I am not working on professional web design at all. I still make some sites, but not for pay. I still program, too, but my skills in C++ and Java are expiring. I'm just enjoying visiting here, and busy respecting people who want to do this for a living. (and helping, when I can.)

My name is Ness and Im an online gamer.

There now, I admitted it - I play massively multiplayer RPGs, an odd thing for a woman to be into some might say. Aparently now women make up the majority of online gamers (have to dig out where I saw that...Im sure I didnt imagine it - probably more the online quiz/trivia type thing rather than the predominately male MMORPG scene).

Im in a gaming clan and twice a year we all meet up in a hotel and get horribly drunk for the weekend.

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, talk about slow modems, people these days have no clue

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I used to hunt down and play with the BBS's for fun. I remember one of my first computers which had a 2400 baud modem in it. Specifically I remember dowloading a file from Florida (A game that was about 1MB which was huge at that time) and it took about 15 hours).