BayDad

Hello!  Welcome to my first post on BayDad!

I’m Steve, your friendly author and local sysadmin.  I live, work, and raise my family in Mountain View, CA.  I’m a software engineer for a well-known technology company, and I’ve worked on software for video systems for over a decade. (Yikes!)

What I’m newest at is being a father, and particularly, being a father in the Bay Area.  I think this area has some unique challenges and opportunities for fathers, but when I set out to find a blog that was specifically about being a dad in the bay, I couldn’t find anything!

So, here we are, with an install of WordPress, a 1U server from PixelUSA hosted by Layer42 running Ubuntu 7.10 (no, I haven’t upgraded to 8.04LTS yet), and a cute DNS name registered with godaddy.  You get the idea?  I’m a dad, and I’m a geek, and these two things aren’t at all opposed.

My son just had his 14-month birthday (no, we didn’t actually celebrate this), and he’s super-cute, and I feel as though we’ve just now got this whole parenting thing under control (time to add more chaos, right?). I’ll be posting more pictures & galleries of his progress in the future.

So, to wrap up, I started this blog as a place for Bay Area dads to read & comment & discuss everything about being a techie-geek dad.  I think there are really a lot of special & different things about raising a family here, so I think we’ll have a lot to talk about!