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Code for food?
By Sparky | November 19, 2005
Codeforfood.org comes from a rather interesting chapter in my life. It was during the middle of the .com bust and I had all but hit rock bottom. After being unemployed for more than 18 months I had come to the conclusion that desperate times called for desperate measures. In an effort to get noticed amongst the throngs on unemployed tech workers here in Seattle I decided to put a bit of a twist on the cliche homeless guy standing on the street-corner begging for work and do it myself. I bought this domain to have a place to direct the media and potential employers that would be interested in looking at my resume or credentials.
It’s funny that this site would turn into a primary blog given that the original codeforfood.org site had a blog like format. It did not actually employ a proper CMS system however as the entire weblogs revolution was still a year or so off. I coded the entire site in static HTML, updating and adding to it every night as my journey continued. In the interests of posterity I have preserved the original code for food webpage.
So I suppose that begs the question of why I am recycling the domain and letting it rise out of the ashes of my old weblog Sparktoblog! and become my primary little niche in cyberspace. It’s simple really - I’m getting interested in coding again, although not professionally. After landing a position as a Recruiter during my code for food publicity stunt I let my technical skills dwindle over the next four years until I rediscovered web development when I created Sory Electronics in response to Sony’s malicious DRM rootkit. Given that our societies future is looking evermore technical I want to at least do some small technical thing to try to keep up with it all.
So here I am, Wordpress, Photoshop, and a good text editor loaded up on my powerbook and ready as I ever will be to face new challenges in cyberspace. I might not be coding to eat anymore, but I sure will be enjoying coding more than I did all those years ago when I stood on a street corner holding my sign.
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