Author Paul White

Paul White

About the Author

I am Paul White, a freelance web developer that works from my home office here in Pearland, TX.

What I do
I am a web application developer.
Technologies of choice  ASP.NET, C#, HTML, CSS, XML, MySQL, and Flash.

Family and Personal Life
2000, Good friend Abby set me up with Kendra over the phone.
2000 Halloween at Omaha's MAX,  Met Kendra for first time, First Date went well.
2001 Moved to Overland Park Kansas with Kendra
2002 Got engaged to Kendra
2002 Kendra surprised me with a small Maltese Puppy, we named him Pepe.
2002 Got married to Kendra
2002 Moved to Houston TX, and got an apartment in midtown.
2003 Upgraded to larger apartment
2004 Upgraded to larger apartment with Pool view
2006 Bought House in Pearland TX.
2008 Hurricane IKE, Didn't leave town,  will leave next time ( CAT 3 Hurricanes are not fun )

Political Views
To summarize my political views.  I back any idea that  encourages conservation, and innovation.  The government often subsidizes failing businesses and the weak.  My thoughts are if a company is failing then it should fail.  I was against the corporate bail outs.  I am against Medicare spending on the under / uninsured. I support a flat tax.  I am against the cash for clunkers program.  I like Obama, but want to see him make some real changes, and not just restructure the same failed government programs.

Bold Ideas that I would support
$20 / pack tax on cigarettes,  ( got to pay for cancer one way or another )
Every new home must be able to generate its own electricity via solar and or Wind.
$1 / gallon Gasoline Tax with proceeds going towards new roads, and research into electric cars using capacitors.
Universal Healthcare that charges higher taxes to people that smoke or are overweight.
Universal Heathcare that lowers taxes on healthy lifestyles.
Mandatory drug tests for all government employees( including congress )
Federal Sales Tax ( only way to force illegals to pay taxes )

Why I started this blog
As a Web Application developer I am constantly learning new things.  The daily struggles of building websites, using new technologies, and running various web, mail, and database servers, has given me the opportunity to learn a bunch of stuff.  The posts on this blog are to help other developers who may run into the same problems I run into. Or they are to provide education to my clients who constantly have questions about technologies they don't understand.  Its easier for me to just refer them to a blog entry, than to spend 30 minutes on the phone trying to verbalize it.