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Hello. My name is Shawn Blanc, and welcome to my weblog.

I’m 26. I live in the Midwest and work full time with a ministry. I am quite happily married to a woman who is much better looking than I am. Aside from writing for this blog I travel regularly across the United States with a young adult conference called onething. I have been playing drums since I was in 5th grade. I love to write. I love graphic design. My sister is an outstanding photographer. And I have a black belt in Tae-Kwon-Do.

About the site

Publishing

I publish this blog using the latest version of the free WordPress Content Management System. WordPress is an outstanding application. It does exactly what I want it to do, and nothing less. It makes writing and publishing a weblog less about the web and more about writing.

Designing

Coded on Coda: the one window wonder, with all major file and image transfers done through Transmit. All writing, editing and publishing is done on MarsEdit.

Hosting

ShawnBlanc.net is hosted on a (mt) Media Temple Grid Server. After some reliability issues with my previous hosting provider I moved to Media Temple. They are one of very few hosting providers that are genuinely involved within the design and technology community. They offer fantastic service at a great price, and their customer service and technical help is off the charts.

For more details, click here to read about the behind the scenes ins and outs of how ShawnBlanc.net is published and maintained.

Macintosh

My current setup is a 15-inch MacBook Pro with a 23-inch Apple Cinema Display. I just recently switch from my previous workstation, a Quad-Core Mac Pro named Azlan. And before that, was my my trusty 12-inch PowerBook G4 in its custom fitted Brenthaven case. I loved that case.