I am a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Washington State University. My exam areas were American Literature 1800-1945 and Textual Studies/Digital Humanities. My dissertation, Curate, Create, and Play: Pathways into Hypermediated Literary Scholarship, will be completed in April 2010. For more information on my research and teaching interests, please see my CV (PDF) or e-mail me.

I am also still the technical director of an interactive media company in the San Francisco Bay Area, where my responsibilities include enterprise web application planning and development, database design, system administration, user interface consultation, and social media/social networking strategies. For the past ten years I have written, and still continue to write, technical books; since 2004 I have written exclusively for Sams Publishing (Pearson). My latest book (published December 2009) is Sams Teach Yourself HTML & CSS in 24 Hours (8th ed.). I am also a regular contributor to the group blog ProfHacker: Tips & Tutorials for Higher Ed.

The word "sandbox" in the name of this site comes from the hacker word. The term "sandbox," as I use it here, refers to a development environment in which projects are built and tested without running the risk of messing up a production system. Some such projects have had a home here in the sandbox before continuing on to their ultimate destinations, while others still percolate within this site. Typically these projects are password-protected but if you are curious about something just e-mail me. I have more projects in the works than I have listed here, because they are in various states of planning and implementation. You can often find information about nascent projects and ideas in my blog.

Also included in this website are syllabi and handouts from courses I have taught. There is no way to "scholar up" this statement—I just love to teach. I also love research. Heck, I just like academia. Seriously.

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