In memoriam

A special message to a man who thought the sun rose and set on me-no matter how young, stupid, and irreverent I was:  I love you and miss you, Grandpa - and I wish I would have told you when you were still here.

Richard J. Lenz

  January 5, 1928 - October 16, 2008

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Obligatory Introductory Message

For those of you were wondering, this is what I do for a living.  I design and build complex, data-driven websites for clients all over the world.  Most of my work is back-end code (which means you never see it unless it breaks); however, I think I'm also a pretty fair UI designer. 

OK, so I got bored and changed the layout to something a bit less professional.  I know this layout has a one-pixel-off issue in IE, and is a year old.... I'm working on a new one but at the moment, I really couldn't care less what this site looks like.

Old Projects

At the present time I am working on a number of projects.  (If a project is linked, there is an available online demo) ...

• CConvert - a system to convert CSV files to XML documents for use with Cardax systems
• srvmon - an IRC bot designed to monitor high-traffic or high-load servers for quick response to DDoS
  
• DNSBL Genie - an online lookup tool that supports multiple DNSBLs on a single IP (Quick Lookup) or batch lookups using a single DNSBL.
  

About this site

This site itself is an ongoing development project; it is based on a highly flexible, modular site engine I created in early 2007 for Undernet's #ZT project. It has since been modified and used in several other sites, and is a perfect CMS system for small sites and users with very little technical expertise.  Updates are very infrequent since I have a job, side projects, 2 dogs, 2 cats, and (of course) Victoria.