About

Me in one of my trusty ball caps

Bloggin Old School is the blog of Chris Beck, a long-time webpreneur who toils away at the computer all day, and most nights. Chris will now switch to a first-person narrative, since we all know it is he who is actually writing this.

I pretty much summed up what this blog was going to by about and how it came to be in this post, so I will spare you the same story here. I will however take this opportunity tell you a little about chartered accountancy, web development, and herding cats.

I am actually a 40-year-old web developer from Charlotte who got the opportunity to cut his consulting teeth (and many other things) in Silicon Valley back in the late 90’s. While that is not too out of the ordinary (or even particularly exciting), I do have some really good stories surrounding my family’s move out there, as well as some video of kids doing embarrassing things, pictures of guys drinking beer on the edge of gorge of eternal peril, and a healthy collection of ill-advised web sites that I want to share with you.

With any luck, my bosses and clients will leave me alone long enough for me to post some of these gems.

I currently live in the Charlotte area with my wife of 15 years (Carrie), my children (Haley, 11; Dawson, 8; and Joshua, almost 7), two cats, and a boat-load of unfinished projects. Carrie homeschools the kids, and I try to keep her sane. Occasionally, I succeed.

Me and my sweetie at Disney

I frequently run sound at my church, play really bad guitar, and enjoy camping in our RV. Ok, so my guitar is not that bad, but the rest of it is true. I swear!

I have a full-time job doing Ruby on Rails development, as well as a thriving consulting company.

I recently quit drinking and smoking, so I might be a little irritable at times.

Other than that, there is not much to tell. Well, on this page at least! I am never short of opinions, stories, comments others wish I would keep to myself, and occasionally snide remarks. I do love football, college basketball, Seinfeld reruns and Survivor; so I really never run out of goofy things to talk about.

Feel free to drop me a line or post comments on any of my posts. If I don’t like them, I will probably delete them, but at least you can say you tried!

Joshua, Age 6

Dawson, Age 8

Haley, Age 11