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
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.
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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.