Late September is a special time for me personally, because it marks the anniversary of 4GuysFromRolla.com, the Web site I started with a couple of college buddies to serve as an outlet for my interest in ASP. This September, 4Guys turns six years old. (If you are interested, you can read a bit about the history of 4Guys.)
Time sure does evaporate right before your eyes, eh? I wonder where I'd be right now if it wasn't for 4Guys. Where I live, my wife, my dog, my career, my home, many people I know... all of it can be traced back to that decision to start a Web site. And that can be traced back to my internship at Empower (a now-defunct consulting/training company in Kansas City) in 1998 where I learned about ASP in the first place. It's amazing how many of life's very significant results can be mapped back to some very trivial action or decision.
Ok, ok, enough waxing on about pseudo-philosophical matters like an angst-ridden teen. Back to your regularly scheduled programming in the next post, promise. :-)