Todd's Humble Abode -- Personal web page


Welcome to Todd's humble abode.... A thoroughly useless web page since August 12, 1996.

"Todd, I'm sure your life story is fascinating, and I appreciate your embrace of Spartan, ugly, early 90's web design techniques, but I'm really here for the useful and probably way outdated information you've assembled on...."

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If you'd like to contact me or shower me with money, please send email to: Todd email is contained in this image. Damned spammers and worm writers!

And now, the glowing tribute to oneself that you've come to expect from personal web pages:

What I Do ("Are you the police?")

I'm blessed to have wonderful family, good health, a couple of engineering degrees, a patent in integrated circuit design, several bass guitars, lots of audio, PA, and computer toys, a house with 4 walls and a roof that doesn't leak to keep them in, and a fulfilling career with a really big IT company where I get to work at home and break stuff for a living.
Education ("That's great, Ed. How about the fiber samples?)

I hold a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering from a Northern Illinois school with a frisky feline as its mascot. My MS specialty was VLSI CAD, whoring a bit off my chip design past, but I'll admit I wasn't too keen on the research and ended up parlaying this into a career change into IT. I also have a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with a bit of a concentration in audio signal processing from a Catholic University somewhere in Ohio.

Places I've Called Home ("Where's the Office of the Assessor of Cook County?")
I now live in the NW suburbs of Chicago, IL, a city with a wonderous mass-transit system. I live here because, after all, it is known as "That Toddlin' town." (ugh!)
I used to live in the city of Austin, Texas USA.. As a result, the show "King of the Hill" is absolutely hysterical to me.
Having lived both places, I was surprised to find that I'm far more annoyed by a pinched, nasal Northern-Illinois accent than I ever was by a smoother Texas drawl. I think it was Rex Harrison who once said "Why can't the Illini teach their children to speak?"
Before that Jerry Springer was my mayor, and later, my town's Emmy award winning news anchor and commentator. Yes, I'm serious. The guy's friggin brilliant, actually. His TV show is an unbelievable travesty and waste of his intellect of course, but even he will tell ya that. Here's hoping my move to Chicagoland won't have the same deleterious effect on my soul.

Hobbies ("Did they live quietly? What were their personal habits?")

Not that anyone cares per se, but perhaps we have something in common to shoot the breeze about?

Music I play drums, bass, and guitar. See my band history page for sordid details of my musical past.
Consumer advocacy. Among the things I hate is marketing bullsh*t. Exposing weasels, folks who don't 'get' customer service or how to be a reasonable human, and trumpeting people and organizations that do things right is kinda fun.
Linux--the choice of a GNU generation See how I built my own Linux/DOS/WinNT computer .. err, back in 1998. Trust me at the time, it was The Shit. It's here for humor now, given how outdated it is.
Computers and stuff. I recently started a blog that references recent projects and/or ramblings on challenges that came up and how I fixed em in hopes of becoming altruistic search engine foder
Bunnies Learn all about the care and feeding of the house rabbit. I miss the little critters.
Photography. I shoot with big f/2.8 lenses on a Canon EOS Elan, 300D and Canon G2!
Racquetball. This sport makes me cuss like no other.
Darts and foosball. Not very conversational, but fits in the basement. I've got an old school built-like a brick craphouse Dynamo table with angled corners plucked out of an arcade in the late 70's.
Karate/TKD. Just got back into it in 2001 after a college TKD long ago. 10 years and a desk job seems to impact ones flexibility. Who knew?
Home repair and destruction. Hobby by necessity.
Fixing all sorts of computer problems. Here's one writeup on a particularly nasty recurring svchost.exe application error that I finally solved.

I used to have time for all of these when I was trying to become a Renaissance Man of some sort. Ah, those college days. I still have all these hobbies, and can't entertain them all in parallel. Unfortunately, that doesn't prevent me from trying.

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	Students, I'm sorry I can't help with IC application questions. Please consult the manufacturer's databook. "You be the engineer."
	HTML 4.0 Compliant. Optimized for nothing. Tested under Netscape, Internet Exploder, and even (gasp) lynx. Should be viewable without horizontal scrolling and just as ugly all the way down to 600x480 resolutions.