About
Significant events in my life. This is almost more for me than for you, as I’m horrible at remembering even the most significant of events and their time-relationship with other things.
- Life Aug 1980 Born in Madison, WI at St. Mary’s Hospital
- Life September 1985 First day of Kindergarten
- Life Jun 1989 Moved to Verona, WI (start of 5th grade)
- School Jun 1998 Graduated Verona Area High School
- Work Jul 1998 Start work at American Family Insurance (software testing)
- School Aug 1998 Started at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
- Life May 2002 Attended my first Graves Mountain Bluegrass Festival
- School Sep 2002 Help found Whitewater United for Peace
- Life Sep 2003 Started work at The Brass Rail Saloon
- Life Oct 2003 Bought my first car, 2002 Saturn L200
- School May 2004 Graduated University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
- Work Jun 2004 Started work at American (prepress & print design)
- Life July 2005 Peak summer of The Missing String Band
- Work Dec 2006 Started work at Suttle-Strauss (prepress)
- Work May 2007 Started work at Chatman Design (web design)
- Work Jul 2007 CSS-Tricks launched
- Life Dec 2007 Moved to Portland, OR
- Life Jul 2008 Moved to Chicago, IL
- Project Feb 2009 Launched Are My Sites Up
- Project May 2009 Launched Digging Into WordPress (the blog)
- Project Nov 2009 Initial publishing of Digging Into WordPress (the book)
- Project Mar 2010 Digging Into WordPress (the book) v2
- Work Jun 2010 Start working at Wufoo (web design)
- Project Jul 2010 Digging Into WordPress (the book) v3
- Life Aug 2010 Moved to Tampa, FL
- Work Apr 2011 SurveyMonkey acquired Wufoo
- Life Aug 2011 Moved to Palo Alto, CA / Sold Saturn / Bought 2011 Toyota Tachoma
now
- Life Nov 2062 Probable death due to meteor apocalypse
Interviews
I’ve been lucky enough to have been interviewed a number of times. Here is a list of them.