It's good to hear that there are still some true geeks like me out there To answer some of your questions so far... I started programming when I was six on the Apple computer and had my first programming job in high school. It didn't last long because they could not afford to keep paying for my services so I moved on to flipping burgers. I did not reenter the programming world until the late 90's. I did some VB work to keep some food on the table and did a lot of ASP and static HTML. Right now I am working mostly in C# and VB.NET. I had a gig a year ago writing an ActiveX control in VB 6 (it was a weather control that interpreted MNG format radar data). It's been mostly .NET since dec 2001. Prior to this I was a C++ programmer also doing VB and Java on the side to keep busy. I used to want to make games until I heard how poorly the game developers get treated so I opted out for that one. Now I just focus on my Frameworks and other business end related stuff - plus I started a blog where I dump my thoughts on programming. You can check it out at blogs.magenic.com/chaset - there are some other blogs from our other consultants as well that you may enjoy. I do work from home sometimes, but mostly I go to the client site because I am also a mentor in C# and VB.NET so I don't get to stay home as often as I would like (plus the drive is a real killer - 1 1/2 hours one way for most of the clients I have had in the last year and a half). I am not a contract employee I am full time with a consulting company (http://www.magenic.com). They are the best company I have ever worked for, they treat all their employees very well and our insurance is great. It completely covered my surgery. We had one other consultant at our company out of the Minneapolis office who had a RNY. I went with the VBG but sometimes wonder if it was the right choice (time will tell). If you guys (or any other geeks out there) ever want to shoot the techno-breeze or share ideas drop me an email. I am always willing to learn something new or help out with a problem. Sounds like Adam has been at this as long as I have and likes the bare metal as much as I do - what about you Laura? When did you get bit by the geek bug? Cheers! Chase Thomas

Sure... you email the picture to '[email protected]' to get that added to your profile. It is not something you can upload yourself to the site... they have to add it. It takes a couple weeks. I sent mine last week and it is still not done - they have a backlog. However, the sooner you send it - the sooner it is up there. Laura

Ok, I figured I try here for some help. I've noticed that in a lot of peoples posts they are able to include a small picture of themselves. Can someone tell me how to do that?

Hi Shannon I also like to develop web pages. I would like to do my own for this board, but can not figure out where I would enter the html codes to create my page. Thanks Starr

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