About Me
I’m a programmer/hacker and Christian who runs Technically Sound, a small business dedicated to helping Christian ministries with administrative tasks, primarily related to helping them communicate. The focus of most of my time is prayerletters.us, a prayer letter mailing service for U.S.-based missionaries around the world.
In 2002, I graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Linguistics, having spent a couple of terms studying web usability, and this has become a focus of much of my research and development since then. I’m always looking for ways to make it easier for missionaries and ministries to get administrative tasks accomplished, so that they can focus on spending time with people, rather than computers.
This site is where I talk about more or less anything that comes to mind — if you were to sit down and have a chat with me in person, things like what you see here may come up (and it’s up to you to decide whether that’s a reason to visit or stay very far away).
If you’re looking for behind the scenes information about my business, you might consider the Business, PLS Observations, Postal, and Programming categories of posts. Otherwise, the home page includes all of my ramblings, mainly those that are aimed for friends and family who want to keep up with what I’m doing.
You can also read more about this site and about what I do for a living.
Background
I’m a native of Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada. You’ll find that I don’t have the traditional Newfie Accent, mostly because Americans speak such a strange dialect of English that communication was difficult until I adopted their pronunciation and spellings. If they would only speak proper English like we do in Newfoundland, it wouldn’t be a problem.
For those of you from my past who are trying to track me down (please send me a note if you’ve found me!), I went to C. C. Laughlin elementary school starting in 1985, G. C. Rowe junior high school starting in 1991, and Herdman Collegiate (now Corner Brook Regional High) in 1995. I was involved in the French Immersion program throughout, and am as a result more or less fluent in French. I graduated in 1998, then moved to Hanover, New Hampshire in the United States to attend Dartmouth.
After graduating from college, I married Christine Flagg (now Simms), and worked for three years at a medical company in West Lebanon, New Hampshire as a production technician, then as a programmer, and then as a database administrator and programmer. I left that company in 2005 when I had enough income to pursue working with missionaries full-time.
Lacking any particular reason to move anywhere else, we’ve stayed in the area, living in Orford, NH; White River Junction, Vermont; West Lebanon, NH; and, currently, Lebanon, NH.
