{ 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. i generally do not use a content management system, but when i need one, i modify wordpress. 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 that are interesting and challenging, lately i've been interested in virtual 3D worlds. if you have a gig that pays little but trains me, i'll probably take it.

i am a student

currently i am phd student in the cultural studies graduate group at uc davis. my research interests revolve around territory and population, health and citizenship, the biopolitics of mobile labor, medical remittances, the history of medicine and citizenship in El Salvador. there's more but you get the idea. the title of my dissertation is The Migration of Biopolitics: health and citizenship in El Salvador.

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