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updated Feb 27, 2008.
This is the nth weblog design of a Toronto-based weblogger, web-geek and currently ( finally) an IT Coordinator for a downtown software company. My name is David, I am 40, I am taken, I am average height and pot-bellied. I have had a weblog since 1999 when I realized that the personal site I was running was called a weblog. I have had a personal site on and off since 1995. My first personal site entry was a list of my Xmas gifts for that year with links to the sites where you could buy them.

This site is designed in Photoshop, coded by hand & Dreamweaver and managed by Movable Type 3sumthin. The logo is by Meomi.

IT Coordinator? I used to buy the computer equipment but now I do a buncha various things like establish policy, interact between IT Staff and Cranky Managers, investigate standards in equipment and software, interact with vendours for better pricing and support and much much more. I wear "many hats" as my boss would say. Past jobs have included Customer Support (as in supporting a product to customers), Computer Consulting (at the beginning of The Web), Computer Trainer, Tech Support (as in fixing printers, answering questions and installing software & hardware), Grave Digger, Security Agent, Chair Setter-Upper, Janitor, Receiver/Shipper, Team Lead for a bunch of Website Builders and Retail Whore.

I am from the east coast of Canada, Cape Breton in particular, but I have lived all across Canada including Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Edmonton and now Toronto. I have not travelled much but I have visited NYC and Lake Placid. I don't drive and I growl at drivers every day. I also rage silently at the morons in the subway - what does it take to let people OFF the train before your slam your way in???

I no longer play City of Heroes, Guild Wars but WoW is back on my roster. I will soon get bored of it again. I do own a PS2 and an xBox and a Wii but I am not really playing anything right now. I do not intend on getting the new ones until money flies out my ass or they are obsolete. I was also a D&D player. I say was because it's been years since I actually played. But I do continue to DL & buy sourcebooks and read Dragon (RIP) every day.

Marmy and I try to pick up playing again every few months.

I watch too much downloaded TV, including recently: Dr Who, Torchwood and Stargate Atlantis. Some other series like Dexter, Heroes, BSG are yet to start again. Denno Coil is the only anime in the mix right now but I still obsess over Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex will (someday) get a Tachikoma tattoo.

PhoToast is currently dead but being resurrected. You can peek but it won't mean much. It has been a (failed) 365 Days Project and a somewhat successful photoblog. Both it and the parent site, the one you are reading sucker, are being redesigned right now. I have tried redesigns three times but they never went anywhere.

This is About Ver4.4; I am at moi(at)thisboyistoast.nu.

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