The Beginning of the Beginning

Well now, this is a positive feeling.

A little about me for a first blog.

I'm 21, and I'm a software developer. That's right. I'm a coder.

I started this all when I was around 14, after starting High School. I had initially become infatuated with computers when I was around the age of 12, with my first delve into the world of mIRC. That was a scary place. At 13 I remade the mIRC script to fit what I wanted the whole window and format to look like.

Pretty simple stuff, actually.

From there my interest sky-rocketed. Computers took the headline of my life and still are my biggest passion. To be able to mold a tiny world with your hands and mind is truly a liberating feeling. In a way, my profession is a genre of escapism to me, where I can shed the shackles of reality and become a tiny God of my own software world, where I make the rules and where things live or die by my thoughts and actions.

This isn't to say that my profession is exactly the easiest thing in the world. Far from it, in fact. Many people believe that being a programmer is some sort of gift given by genetics and birth, because no one can seem to fathom how exactly a coder does what he does, yet, as said by my Programming teacher, coding isn't an art or a god-given gift, it's a discipline.

I wholeheartedly believe this to be one of the absolute truths.

Yes, some people are better at coding than others, only because they have an easier time wrapping their minds around abstract ideas, which are simply pieces in a giant puzzle. However, on the whole, everyone can code. What do you think you do when you write HTML? You code.

And there we have that.

So, back to me and computers and my life.

Aside from me being a coder for the last 7 years of my life, I'm also a drummer and have been for, also, 7 years. I've played in around four bands, the most popular of which was Misguided, a local Sudbury band which had huge potential.

Currently, I'm a drummer without a band, with a desperate need of a band.

I'm taken by Elodie Chivot, and have been for the past 2 years and hopefully for the rest of my life.

Other than that, enjoy my little corner of the World Wide Web, and keep coming back to see some pretty nifty updates as I show off some of the things I can do.

Take care,

Clay.