ckdake is me. This name came about because it was the first screenname I came up with that I could get on AOL in the late 90s that didn't have numbers in it, and it's stayed unique over the years. If you google for it, everything that shows up is pretty much guaranteed to be me, and my FriendFeed is another good place to find out more. And there is my facebook page and my LinkedIn profile.

I finished grad school at Georgia Tech in 2007 where I spent a lot of time doing computer science related research in RNOC (mostly around CPR). I'm the project manager for Gallery (you can take a look at my svn log if you want), and I'm the webmaster over at Faster Mustache. In the Summer of 2007 I was an intern at Google and since January 2008 I've been working as an Operations Engineer for SugarCRM.

Updates

Activities

riding bikes (mountains, roads, tracks, commutes), taking pictures, saving the world, cooking, eating, making music, listening to music, people watching, showing up early, making graphs, writing code

Interests

finding the solution, corndogs, doritos, good deals, graphs, staying up late, getting up early, getting packages in the mail, scalable web infrastructure, cheese, learning new things, all things bike, network fault detection and localization, open source software, technology and innovation policy, network performance, data sharding, Faster Mustache, the human form, giving gifts, empty inboxes, information, data synchronization, distributed application architectures, taquitos

People

It's rare that people I know have websites that are worth visiting that are both interesting and regularly updated. Here are the current picks:

San Smith | Jim Hodgson | Melissa Crane | Jesse Mullan | Joey Parsons | Namrita O'Dea

Wandering Grounds

In addition to checking up on the above there are some other places I frequent online:

Faster Mustache | The SixtyOne | Exploding Dog | WeatherUnderground | Gallery | last.fm

Software

I'm in front of a computer a lot. There are a few things that make this possible:

Vim | Gentoo Linux | Firefox | GIMP | Mac OS X | Apple Mail | Adium | Viscosity | Adobe Lightroom

Some key things that pull it all together so I don't loose my mind:

Things | Google Reader | Delicious | Dropbox | Garmin BaseCamp | KeePassX

Theres also all the stuff on my servers that I couldn't do a lot of things without:

Gentoo Linux | Apache | PHP | MySQL | Postfix | Perl | Gallery | Drupal | RoundCube

Subscriptions

Two great magazines that I subscribe to:

Books

The last couple of books I finished reading:

Music

Sometimes I make music, and frequently I listen to music. I play cello, bass guitar, a bit of piano, and a little guitar guitar and you can hear some things I've made on my media projects page. I'll listen to any music that has soul and some that doesn't, but if I had to pick some keywords for what I really like it would be something like post-hardcore melodic screamo with a good bit of 90s rock thrown in for good measure. My Last.fm page has all the details of what I listen to but heres some trivialities:

Top Artists of All Time	Top Artists This Week	Recent Tracks

Some Tasty Links

Tag cloud of my bookmarks on delicious: