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

I am 29, live in the Midwestern United States and work full-time as Head Cheese of marketing and design with a Christian ministry. I am quite happily married to a woman who is much better looking than I am. I have been blogging since early 2005. 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. I have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. And I drive a 20th Anniversary Edition Volkswagen GTI #3455.

About the Site

Publishing

This weblog runs on the latest version of WordPress. 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 frustrating web-related issues and more about publishing. All writing and editing is done with MarsEdit.

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

Design

Coded in Coda with all major file transfers done through Transmit.

Hosting

This site 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.

Read more about why I recommend (mt) here.

Macintosh

My current setup is a 15-inch MacBook Pro. I recently switched to the notebook from my previous workstation, a Quad-Core Mac Pro named Azlan. Before that was my trusty 12-inch PowerBook G4 with its custom fitted Brenthaven case. I loved that case.

Elsewhere

Other than subscribing to this site’s RSS feed and checking in as often as you like, you can follow me on Twitter and view my pictures on Flickr.

Contact

To get ahold of me see the contact page.