The Shwartz is strong with this one.

Carey Drake in Barcelona

Welcome to my blog, consider yourself lucky that you now have the privilege of hearing my most inner thoughts and scandalous desires.  Not really, but hopefully that sentence gives you an idea of my sense of humor.

Seriously though, this is my class blog for the Master of Internet Technology program at the University of Georgia.  From time to time I will be elaborating on class discussions or talking about a project I am currently working on.  I have to admit that I am a WordPress fanboy and this is my first time using blogger.  I thought I would give it a try, embracing the academic spirit of breaking out of my comfort zone and learning about new ideas and methodologies. Not to mention that I seem to have a hard time remembering to update WordPress installations.

To tell you a little bit about myself I am currently 22 and a native of Athens, Ga.  I work for UGA as a web developer in the Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute and also run two small business of my own.  Web development is a passion of mine.  I built my first website when I was barely out of elementary school back when frames and tables were cool.

I am the one on the left. (Captain Rex)
Recently sold to a new home.

I love to travel as much as possible.  Some of favorite places to visit are Barcelona, Los Angeles, Coruscant, the Mushroom Kingdom and most recently I have fallen in love with Seattle.  Aside from traveling I have enjoyed playing piano for the past 12 years and am a huge fan of Gerswhin. One of my life goals is to actually memorize Rhapsody in Blue.. 3/26 pages to go.  When I am not serenading myself on the piano I am a thrill seeker, always looking for the next class V river to go white water rafting or another perfectly good plane to jump out of.  A recent hobby of mine has been costuming.  I am a member of the Star Wars 501st and Rebel Legion costuming groups but I do not limit myself to only Star Wars costuming.  At the moment I am working on a Jurassic Park ranger costume for DragonCon.

I am genuinely excited to be apart of the MIT program and the challenge it will provide me.

Please visit and comment often.  Whoever leaves the 1,000,000 comment to my blog will win a free Nintendo Wii.

Carey Drake