User:WorldDownInFire

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This is a picture of me with my "NASCAR moustache" eating a oatmeal banana cookie, makes me look like a proper jerk, eh?
This is a picture of me with my "NASCAR moustache" eating a oatmeal banana cookie, makes me look like a proper jerk, eh?

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[edit] About

I'm Don Smith

I was born March 2, 1979.

I live in Madison, WI.

I grew up in Bloomington, MN and graduated from JFK in 1997.

My username is taken from a lyric in the song Soul On Fire on Danzig's 1988 release Danzig I.

[edit] Interests

I'm a fan of Linux and several other F/OSS projects. I operate a webserver running Ubuntu Linux out of my house. On this, I run a Madison area punk/metal/hardcore/indie music site called mad.city.hard.core as well as a semi-joke "scene" site called theraccoonbear which was originally intended as a send up of the cobra snake. I've built a MythTV out of a spare computer I had and was really enjoying it, until buying a house and no longer having free cable, and not wanting to pay for it. In addition to mucking about with code, I spend a fair amount of time liberating old hardware from the trash and finding ways to break it.

I spend some of my spare time (and time coding at work) listening to hardcore, punk, and metal music. Apart from that, there's the occasional bit of pop-crap that sneaks into my playlists and a fair amount of NPR news and classical.

Professionally, I've done most of my work in a Windows environment using VB6 and/or .NET, but have had occasion to do work using other, more open, technologies (Perl, Linux, etc.) My current personal project is to learn Common Lisp over the winter of 2007/2008.

[edit] Current Employer

  • HyCite Inc. in Madison, WI as a Programmer/Analyst I.

[edit] Past Employers