About This Site

Born Geek is an independent development house founded in 2004. We offer free extensions for the Firefox web browser, free Windows software, and development tutorials of all sorts. I also maintain an active blog that covers topics of all sorts.

This website is currently powered by WordPress. My previous platform of choice was Movable Type, and before that I developed by hand. As has always been the case at Born Geek, strict XHTML 1.0 is used for markup and CSS is used for the visual presentation. Web Standards have long been important to me, and I highly recommend Jeffrey Zeldman’s book on the subject: Designing With Web Standards. This book single-handedly opened my eyes to the world of web standards; how glad I am to have seen the light!

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About the Author

Jonah Bishop

My name is Jonah Bishop and I work as a System X tools developer at IBM. The team I work with develops software test tools which get used to test IBM hardware. Outside of work I enjoy a number of ‘geeky’ subjects: web development, programming, digital photography, and video games.

In December of 2004 I graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the Computer Science Department at North Carolina State University. I have mixed feelings on whether or not to advance my education any further; part of me does, and part of me doesn’t. It’s awfully nice to come home in the evening and not have to worry about homework or a test!