I am currently a student at the University of Washington working on a B.S. in Computing and Software System. I also work as a web programmer at a small company called Efellemedia.

I grew up in Tacoma, but currently live in the beautiful city of Seattle. I enjoy listening to music, drinking coffee, and programming. Now if that's not proof I live in Seattle, I don't know what is.

I originally graduated University of Washington with a B.S. in Botany at the end of 2004. From there I tried for months to get a job in the plant science field and finally landed a job at Molbak's, which is a large gardening store in Woodinville. I was the landscaper there for about a year. It wasn't a bad job cause I got to be outside all day and I was the fittest I have ever been in my entire life.

Eventually I decided I wasn't satisfied with my current position and wanted to make my hobby of programming a full time career. So here I am. On my computer all day, drinking coffee, and listening to good music.

Programming Under The Influence was a name I came up with a few days ago, because I was programming under the influence of some pain medicine, which I had taken to get rid of a headache. I felt really good, my headache was gone, and I got a lot of work done that day. Therefore, I decided to make this a personal blog of existing site mentions, my upcoming sites, and cool tricks I found along the way. And no, Percocet is *not* a trick to creating cool sites. It's good for headaches though :p.