About

Aaron Schaefer

About Aaron Schaefer

I’m a certifiable renaissance man, gentleman, and scholar. I have been working in the IT field since 2002 while simultaneously earning my degree in Computer & Information Technology (specializing in Network Engineering) from Purdue University. Working full-time while earning my degree has given me a unique blend of knowledge and experience that I wouldn’t trade for anything. It’s rumored that I may someday rule the world…

If you’d like to see some of the projects I’ve been involved in, take a gander at my aptly named projects page.

About This Site

ElasticDog is the place where I house all of my musings on technology, standards-based web design, personal finance, the arts, programming, life, pirates…whatever strikes my fancy. I tend to write a lot of “howto” articles on various technical subjects, usually stemming from when I have to research something complicated and don’t want to forget how I did it. If my writing can also help other people, then all the better! Participation is always welcome.

Hosting

Scrooge McDuck ElasticDog is hosted on a VPS from SliceHost.com along with a number of my other sites. If you’re comfortable on the command line, then running a VPS is leaps and bounds better than any cheap shared hosting, and not that much more expensive. I know bloggers are always excited to promote their web host in hopes of someday swimming in all the referral money like Scrooge McDuck, but I don’t really care about that. If just one person chooses SliceHost over Dreamhost and their ilk, then my work here is done. For all I care, tell ‘em Large Marge sent ya…

Design

Although it wasn’t my first website, I created ElasticDog when I began learning about web standards back in 2003. I started off using Movable Type as a blogging engine, and unfortunately neglected to convert all of my entries when I later switched to WordPress. Over the years, I’ve updated the look of this site a number of times…click a banner below to be transported into the past.

2003

ElasticDog.com's Design from 2003

2004

ElasticDog.com's Design from 2004

2006

ElasticDog.com's Design from 2006

2007

ElasticDog.com's Design from 2007

Current Design

The current version of ElasticDog.com was not designed by me, but is a highly-customized version of Essay, a Sandbox theme by Ian Stewart.