This page probably breaks many, if not most, of the rules I've heard bandied about for proper HTML use. But, who cares? HTML isn't something I plan on doing for a living. It's not even something I plan on doing as a hobby. As someone who knows a few programming languages and is often forced to create something in one or more of them, it always irks me when someone tells me they're a programmer, I ask what language they program in, and the response is, "HTML." Now that I've gotten that off my chest, I would like to welcome you to my homepage.

(I guess it's only fair that, in light of some of the other stuff I've been doing lately, I can't truthfully say that HTML isn't my hobby anymore. It's still not something I want to do for a living, though, unless the pay is appallingly good.)

I suppose I should introduce myself. My name is Alex Prestin, and I'm currently living somewhere in Connecticut after graduating from Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. The machine you are reading this on belongs to me and is located in my house. Nothing spectacular, but it does what I need it to do.

Along the left side of this page you can see some of the things I'm responsible for, as well as some of my favorite places to visit. This is not all I do for fun, though, thank God. I've been a DJ for more than a decade now. I use vinyl, the One True Music Source, and spin on a pair of ancient Technics SL-1200 decks. I also pretend I'm an artist sometimes (sorry, no links...) I'm starting to get into taping too, having just purchased a Sony M1 portable DAT and, more recently, a Tascam DAP-1. I'll probably end up spending way too much money on this hobby. (I just picked up a pair of KM-140s, too.)

I just finished up an internship at Butler, where I was a sysadmin. I did all their UNIX stuff, 'cause UNIX is what I pretty much live and breathe at the moment (new favorite commercial OS: AIX; favorite all-around OS: Linux.) Does anyone else think IRIX is the work of the devil?

I guess that's about it for now. I'm just glad to have something of substance up here. The page this one replaced was an abomination of excessive graphics and poorly-maintained links. Hopefully this won't become something similar for a while.

- A.P.