I'm 23 years old and have lived in Glen Burnie, Maryland my entire life. I graduated from AACC in spring 2006 with a certificate in UNIX/Linux System Administration. I am diagnosed with IDS aka Cystic Fibrosis. I work as a Web Developer for SAGE Dining Services, Inc. in Towson, MD.

I'm probably at my computer. I'm a Graphic/Web Designer, Programmer and PC Hardware specialist by trade and Musician by hobby.

I play guitar in the band A Break In Chaos and have a solo side-project called Sunday Of The Abstract Static.

I'm also a Debian GNU/Linux geek. I ran Debian for around 8 months back in 2003/2004. Every once in a while I run it on a different box, playing around with configurations and such.

I also do dabble with programming: BASH Shell, PHP, Visual Basic and the like. I know the HTML markup language by hand and rarely use WYSIWYG editors.

I'm a bit of a gamer as well. My favorites lately have been Race Driver: GRID and Unreal Tournament 2004. You can find me as "hxcnion" on both. I am reachable on X-Fire when gaming; my nick is nionx.

I play Burnout: Paradise on Xbox 360; My gamertag is HXC Nion.

johnsettino.com was created out of necessity of a personal blog. I felt the need to create my own, rather than relying on a site such as LiveJournal, Xanga, MySpace, or others. This site was coded during the course of 2 weeks in January of 2006. The header image you see at the top was a manipulation of photographs I took of a Metro station in Washington, DC in July '05, created in Photoshop 7. The page layout was put together in Dreamweaver 8. The PHP backend was coded by hand, utilizing a MySQL database to store the entries, comments and other various things.

Completely new template from scratch. The photo is from a family trip to Carmel, NY in summer 2008, taken with my Canon PowerShot S3 IS (non-DSLR). No photo editing of any kind was done, save resizing it for the layout. All graphic work (resizing, icons, etc) was done in Adobe Photoshop CS2. 80x15 Buttons were made using the Brilliant Button Maker. Feed/Social Networking icons are from the Free Web 2.0 iconset by FastIcon.com.

The new template was designed to use the Rockwell font. Click the name to obtain it.

Tue Apr 14 21:42:38 EDT 2009