BertOlton
BertOlton has posted 24 messages, been awarded 21 achievements and has accumulated 9,785 karma points since joining the community on Mar 15, 2010.

Bert Olton

Heavy equipment and heavy truck operator/mechanic, welder, blacksmith, writer, computer geek wannabe - currently dual booting Linux Mint and Mepis Linux, playing with Openbox and Enlightenment window managers...etc.
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Past Experience

Am just now teaching myself html through w3schools.com and plan on working through all of their offerings. But, started out with a couple of sites using Yahoo Site Builder, then moved to Joomla! Fought with that for several years (mostly successfully) but then found c5. Cowabunga, this is the way to go!

Associations

Member of the International Arthurian Society/North American Branch (http://arthuriana.org/arthurias.htm),
the Artist Blacksmiths Association of North America (http://www.abana.org), the New York Designer Blacksmiths (http://www.nysdb.org/) and a number of Usenet Newsgroups including alt.smokers.pipes, aka ASP (for an associated web site see http://www.aspipes.com/).

Contact

Palmyra, New York
United States

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Education

2 years Liberal Arts college/university (Swarthmore, Ohio Wesleyan), no degree. Studied psych, geology, anthro, German..., couldn't make up my mind.

4 or 5 advanced degrees from 'Das Universitat mit dem Hardgeknocken.'

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