Bio
I am a college student from southern California, where I study business administration and Chinese studies. I attend Whittier College, a small liberal arts school in L.A. County.
I am interested in great HTML and CSS design, and I do freelance web design when not studying or watching Denver Broncos games. I have built several websites for startup companies.
I have written for Newsvine since November 2006. My Newsvine column has a variety of articles, from a Macbook Air review, to an inside look at Ron Paul’s campaign, to my thoughts on China’s radical transformation after I visited Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Wuxi, and Suzhou in January 2008.
I have written TightWind since April 2008. If you are new here, these are my favorite articles:
- Things in Review - A review of Cultured Code’s Things application.
- The Brent Simmons Interview on developing for the iPhone.
- The Strange Tale of MobileMe and Apple’s Post-PC - An analysis of where Apple is heading with MoibleMe and the iPhone.
Equipment
My only computer is a 1.6 GHz MacBook Air, which I use for web design, writing for TightWind, school work, video and music playing. I use an HP 22″ monitor while at my desk, which is an absolutely beautiful display. I have my iPhone almost at all times, which serves as my phone, Internet device, and only iPod. I use NetNewsWire to follow my feeds, Things for my tasks, Coda for web design, MarsEdit for publishing on TightWind, Pages for word processing and page layout, and Keynote for presentations.
TightWind’s Intention
I like people who do great things.
If you are working on something new, whether it’s a product, web application, or even writing, I want to hear from you.
TightWind primarily exists for my writing on a variety of subjects, but I focus on technology, the web, and sometimes current events. My intent with each article I write, and link I post, is to provide content that is — incredibly — worth reading. This does not sound like a particularly ambitious goal, but I think it is. There is very little on the web that is fundamentally worth your time. With every article I publish, my hope is to contribute one more piece to that list.
Oh, a word about the name: think the Ramones. I respect the hell out of the Ramones because they played what they wanted to play, and they did so unreserved and uninhibited.
