I got my start in web development initially as a site builder utilizing XHTML, CSS and JavaScript.
I excelled at taking designers PSD files and creating valid XHTML from it and ensuring that it looks correct in a wide variety of browsers.
I wanted to expand my skill set, so I took up C# and SQL Server about 6 years ago and have been mostly focusing on those ever since.
Web forms interacting with databases through stored procedures, outputting data into fully interactive listviews, datagrids, repeaters, etc., is a main focus of mine.
I've also dabbled in Flash, Flex and Silverlight, though among those, Flex is the only one I really enjoy.
My interests outside of web development include photography, reef aquariums, astronomy and travel. In the last 4 years I've been to Mexico (3 times), Hawaii (2 times), Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, Portugal and Iceland.
At 24 years old, I built my own telescope based on a design from a book. It was a 10" Newtonian reflector on a Dobsonian mount.
It was big, heavy and ugly, but dammit it worked. I could make out 7-8 of Jupiter's moons, and easily view the rings of Saturn.
Through my love of reef aquariums and web development, I've integrated my 120 gallon reef aquarium with the Internet, via a series of tubes.
By creating a png image from the xml output from my reef controller, I can view the tank conditions (pH, temperature, salinity, status of heaters, fans and lights) online instantly.
I've also got a network cam (username is guest, no password) on the tank so I can view it remotely to make sure everything is fine while I'm on vacation.
Coupled with Fusion Charts, I wrote a console app that records tank conditions from the XML created by my reef controller every 15 minutes. It then saves the values into a database. I created charts that will show me what the temperature, salinity and pH are throughout the week at 15 minute intervals.
This is very useful in pinpointing problems in the system, as I'll know if the tank got too hot or cold one day indicating a problem with a heater, fans or lighting.
I'm an avid PC builder as well. I've been building my own PCs for about 12 years, usually getting my parts from NewEgg.
My current PC uses a six core AMD processor overclocked from 3.2GHz to 4GHz, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, 64GB SSD and an ATI HD 6870 video card.
I always use AMD processors in my builds because they're so much cheaper than Intel, while not being much slower. Plus I like to support the little guy.