{ ilagos }

i used to be a web developer

i don’t have any formal training in design. but i used to be some what of a developer, although i could hardly call myself that. it all started in the eighties when my dad taught me to program his HP 41c to play games. in the mid nineties i left my teaching job to babysit servers at an internet garage company. after the company folded, i decided to teach myself how to build websites. in less than three months a little company known as hotmail offered me a job. i became a web developer there. subsequently worked for Microsoft, left Microsoft, traveled around, chased my own tail, and lived in san francisco building web projects. i finally moved on...

This site

i use Textmate to code the html and css for all my work. this side does not need a content management system, but when i need one, i use wordpress because of its felxibility. i use bluehost to host my sites because their integrated online tools. i’ve taken the photographs and created the graphics. i can hardly call me a designer, but all you see here is self taught, trial and error, online tutorials. i still take web gigs so contact me if you want to entice me with something interesting.

i am a student

currently i am a third year phd student in the cultural studies graduate group at uc davis. my research interests revolve around the formation of subjectivities in regards to health in neoliberal transnational spaces. i'm researching the ways in which salvadorans returning to El Salvador to consume health services practice citizenships in complex relationships with the state and private industry, and how these practices formulate notions about health, territory, migration and identity.

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