About

Wed

Jun 27

2007

Hi, my name is Eric Atkins. I am currently living and working in Huntsville, Alabama with my wife Erin and cat Emma. Originally from tiny Riceville, Tennessee, I moved to Huntsville in 1997 to peruse a college education at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. There, I received a major degree in Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering and a minor degree in Mathematics.

Today I am employed by a major U.S. organization specialized in visualization, systems engineering, and project management. As a hobby, I am a free lance web developer building websites for local organizations and groups. I am also a freelance writer and technology enthusiast. My articles on technology and the video game industry have appeared on major media outlets like Newsweek, MSNBC, G4TV, DIGG.com, and IGN.

I have played and won at the highest level of video game competitions. I have traveled across the US to play in tournaments hosted by Major League Gaming and the Cyberathlete Amateur League. I am a Core Group tester for Microsoft Game Studios where I beta test some up and coming video games.

This website has been private for most of its existence. This site was and still is a testbed for many web ventures and ideas. However, spawned by the realization that I might have something neat to say and that my buddies are getting into blogging, I might as well put a front too.

This is my webspace. It is currently going through some major revisions, so hang in there.

By the way, I attend Sojourn Church of Huntsville and volunteer with others in the community to bring you Sojourn's web 2.0 presence.

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MCHS Your Observations

I can echo your observations on MCHS, I have a daughter going there, the kids still have the goals of going to work in the local factories. No real goals or push to be something better. I think much of that comes from home too, as well as being in the Bible belt, get out of school get a job start a family is the emphasis. My daughter jokes about the three P's, and that everything is good... She is passing, not on probation and not pregnant. In fact she is doing much more than that, the bulk of her class load is with honors classes, including a honors pre-calculus class.
I was born in Athens, but lived most of my life in California and have recently moved back to the area, what shock, well at least my kids have goals other than finding a man an just getting married... I know growing up in California, it was always finish high school and go to college as the next basic step, here it is hope to get through high school and then find a good factory job. It is really a shame.

John Plemons

Submitted by John Plemons on Wed, 08/22/2007 - 9:18am.

CMS?

I'm curious to know which CMS you are using. Is it Drupal or Jhoomla?

Submitted by Sumesh on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 7:36am.