John’s Home Page

I've had a presence on the Internet since 1998, when I was given web space by the now defunct SWC, Inc. Read on for a little trip down Nostalgia Circle.

On July 2nd the company had a little pre-4th of July picnic.

On June 20th, 2009, we gathered in Harrisburg to celebrate Sarah's ongoing journey to the bone orchard.

My brother Scott has turned 18, and now has all the responsibilities of a fully grown American male. Use your pointing device of choice to click the read more link and see many photographs of his birthday celebration.

Hello everyone, and welcome to my completely revamped website. There's loads of new changes, so please keep reading this post and find out about everything that's changed!

Jen's cooking up some bagels, and now you can too!

Last week we were working in St. Louis, MO. Keep clicking for more pictures.

After the job on Wednesday was finished, we headed back to the hotel to catch a few hours before driving out to Red Rocks Park.

I've started a project over at Google Code, so anyone can lend a hand or view the code. The project aims to be a simple set of classes for PHP that help you write your own Yubico Yubikey authentication systems. For instance, I intend to integrate my work with my OpenID provider so that I can easily ID myself online.

This past Saturday, Jen, Tom, my Mom, and I drove to Bethlehem, PA to watch the peculiar folk trio Mad Agnes.

We had a large job in California, near San Jose, last week. But just because we were working long nights didn’t mean I couldn’t find some time to visit Mount Hamilton, the highest point in the county. The 254 rods tall mountain is home to the University of California’s Lick Observatory, founded by James Lick, a Pennsylvania Dutchman.

Went hiking yesterday at good ol’ Nixon Park, the park where I proposed to Jen so many months ago. If anyone remembers what day it was, please let me know before she reads this!

This past Friday, Jen and I were able to fly to Tulsa and take part in the wedding of Eugene and Amber Metcalf.

So right now I’m killing time, waiting to board my plane destined for Tulsa. The weather here in Chicago is poor, and my original departure of 7:55 is long since a memory. I brought but a single book (oops), and I’m nearly finished with it. On the bright side, I’m posting this from my iPhone. I don’t think I could go back to a phone that can’t surf the web. Plus the new website backend makes posting from the phone a lot easier and quicker than it was before. American Airlines even has a mobile version of their site so that you can get flight status quickly on an iPhone or Blackberry.