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28 <h1 class="centered">Andrew DeFaria's Home Page</h1>
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38 <p>Hello, my name is Andrew DeFaria. Welcome to my little corner of
41 <p>Well I'm still in California. After having travelled to Dallas, Phoenix,
42 Seattle, Reston and after reminding myself how much I didn't like the East
43 coast I'm back in good ole San Jose, California! Enjoying the climate,
44 mountains and wine. But San Jose didn't last and I finally made it down to
45 beautiful San Diego! And I'm loving it! I'm 2 miles from the beach, which
46 is great, there's plenty of interesting hiking, lovely weather and a great
49 <p>Before that I moved across the country to Reston, VA to take up a
50 contract with Fannie Mae. Alas, after a few weeks the contract
53 <p>Prior to that it was off to the <i>Great White North</i> I
54 guess - really the Pacific Northwest. I've taken a contract in
55 Seattle and am moving up there for 2010. New year - new place.</p>
57 <p>I also managed to upgrade my car to a brand new <a
58 href="/gallery/index.php/Corvette/Vette_at_Lost_Dog_Trail.jpg">2008
59 Chevy Corvette</a>! That's all the pictures I have of it so far as I
60 lost my good camera and only have my cell phone camera. The car is
61 wonderful with lots of power and creature comforts.</p>
63 <p>Last year I was working at Texas Instruments and moved from
64 California, where I lived for some 20 years, back to Dallas. It was
65 a lot cheaper to live there. I've had some <a
66 href="/blogs/Personal/archives/000614.html">health issues</a> of
67 late but am doing much better now.</p>
69 <p>Before moving to Dallas I was working at <a
70 href="http://www.hp.com/go/ilm">HP Information Lifecycle Management
71 Solutions</a> up in Pleasanton.</p>
75 <p>And as the picture shows I'm a guitarist. Click on
76 the picture to see a photo album of my previous bands or see <a
77 href="/Band">Band</a> for more detail. <span class="standout">News
78 flash!</span> The cast of <a href="/Band"><i>Cast of
79 Shadows</i></a> are working on new stuff. More on that when it
84 <p>Of course one must have their <a href="/gallery">Photos</a>
85 online for those who want to take a peek at you and your
86 family. Pictures do help to get a better sense of another person. I
87 have a whole bunch of photos arranged into albums using <a
88 href="http://gallery.menalto.com">Gallery</a>
89 which is an open source <a href="http://php.net">PHP</a> package for
90 managing photos into albums on a web site.</p>
92 <p>Then there is the <a href="/Family">Family</a> section which is
93 basically about my daughter Danielle.</p>
97 <p>At some point I need to fix up the section about my <a
98 href="/Vette">Corvette</a>. Actually most of it is about my first
99 vette and very little about my second one. Alas they are both gone
102 <p>But true to the phoenix name, from the ashes arises a new <a
103 href="/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=6564">Corvette</a>!
104 Alas it only highlight the need to further update the Corvette
107 <h2>Quicken 2000</h2>
109 <p>I used to run the <a href="/Quicken">Unofficial Quicken Web
110 Page</a> but haven't been updating that since around 2000. There is
111 still some good information in there though.</p>
113 <h2>MAPS - My own Spam filter</h2>
115 <p><a href="/maps">MAPS</a>, or <i>Mail Authorization and Permission
116 System</i>, is my email filtering system. I get a <b>lot</b> of email -
117 typically about 5000 emails a week! - and only about 1% of it is
118 email that I want. Being bombarded by spam like that makes one
119 protect themselves. MAPS will eventually be available for anybody to
120 use but is currently still in development. Stay tuned...</p>
124 <p><a href="/Jokes">Jokes</a> is just a section where I can put
125 together various lists of jokes and funnies that I've found over the
130 <p>Also, I'm into web logging and learning <span
131 class="standout">Cascading Style Sheets</span> so check out my <a
132 href="/blogs">Weblogs</a>...</p>
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