The Short Version
Bobdunn.com is my personal web site. I'll be using it as a daily journal, to archive some of the articles I've written over the years and to display some of my photograhpy. The site also provided an excuse to try out a content management system called Textpattern. It's amazing software, which I'm still learning to use.I'm a writer, web developer and barbecue aficionado living with my wife and children on an acre of South Texas land bumping up against the Brazos River.
I grew up in Ohio, where most of my family remains, and settled in Texas after spending a couple of decades in the nomadic newspaper business which, if nothing else, taught me there are warmer places to live than Ohio. I worked for papers in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Arizona, California and Arkansas.
Then a growing interest in the Internet led me to a web venture with Cox Interactive Media in Phoenix, where I became senior producer for the start-up AccessArizona.com. At about the same time, my wife and I got married. A year later, we decided to move to Houston to be closer to her family. I became online editor, web master and head of business development for Time Warner's start-up Roadrunner division. Later, I founded my own company, which specializes in creating database-driven, web-enabled business applications.
After four years of traffic congestion, air pollution, sprawl and the claustrophobic suburbs, we moved 30 miles south, into a 90-year-old house set in an eclectic (OK, funky) neighborhood in the tiny Fort Bend County seat of Richmond.
I eased out of day-to-day operational responsibility at my database company four months after our daughter was born, and sold my remaining interest in it this past December. Now I'm a stay-at-home dad taking care of the baby, doing some occasional business consulting, working on a new web venture, tending a vegetable garden and even blogging sometimes.
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