{"id":111,"date":"2005-03-12T15:24:08","date_gmt":"2005-03-12T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jokeofalltrades.com\/root\/?page_id=111"},"modified":"2016-12-09T09:55:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T16:55:33","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nJokeofAllTrades.com is hosted by the wonderful folks at Webquarry<\/a>. They provide cheap hosting with virtually unrestricted CGI<\/acronym> capability, PHP4, MySQL, PERL5, Linux shell access and just about anything else I could hope for. The coding for the site was\/is all done character by character in TextPad<\/a> under heavy use of caffeine<\/a> and\/or ethanol<\/a>.<\/del> I use WordPress<\/a> to manage the site now. The design is my own, however, with the exception of the page tabs, which I stole from some online tutorial. Each page is coded to conform<\/a> to the World Wide Web Consortium<\/a>’s XHTML 1.1<\/a> Transitional recommendation and styled with valid<\/a> CSS<\/acronym><\/a>. I tried to make my pages more accessible<\/a>, before I gave up making them at all. Any modern browser with a scrap of self-respect should be able to display my pages in a sensible and consistent manner. The site is now hosted on my own home server, so don’t be surprised if it goes down for long periods of time.\n<\/p>\n

Joke of All Trades?<\/h3>\n

\nI began signing e-mails with “Joke of All Trades” my junior year in college. I was feeling a bit… spread thin, trying to triple-major and participate in student government and party and play soccer and rule the world, and failing miserably at all of it. I wanted a fancy sign-off for messages I sent to a mailing list for the Trash Can Sinatras<\/a>, one of the greatest pop bands the world has ever seen. It began as a whim, it stuck as an identity. I can’t explain it better than that.\n<\/p>\n

\nAs for the website, it’s pure vanity. An exercise in exercises. I wanted to learn a little HTML, so I built a website. I wanted to run some scripts, so I had to pay for hosting. It was a short jump to buying a domain name, and my name was already taken. I didn’t have any other nicknames that I wanted to perpetuate, so “Joke of All Trades” won by process of elimination, mostly.\n<\/p>\n

\nI know I don’t have enough “content” to warrant a website. And writing is excruciatingly painful for me. I hate writing. So I figure by having a website, where the whole world can see my “blog” and watch me fail to write, would encourage me to learn to dislike writing a little less. I don’t want everyone to see what a total slacker I really am. I guess the joke’s on me?\n<\/p>\n

Who<\/em> of All Trades?<\/h3>\n

\nJoke<\/em> of All Trades. Rhymes with my last name: Hoke. By the way, my name’s Michael Hoke. I was born in 1975, I have quasi-excellent taste in pop music, I love good beer and wine, I play bad chess, and I am now a first-year associate at a law firm in Boston, MA<\/del>. FunFun.\n<\/p>\n

The Joke’s on You<\/h3>\n

\nYou weren’t hoping to find anything useful<\/em> here, were you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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