About : cowl@sdf
Welcome. My name is Sean Burns and I call this place cowl@sdf. I'm currently a graduate student at the University of Missouri-Columbia where I am pursuing a master's degree in Information Science and Learning Technologies with emphases and interests in reference librarianship, library science, and free, open source technologies.
Previously, I was a cook and chef for nearly 19 years---off and on for the first 8 years and full time for the following 11 years. I also attended Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL where I double majored in Philosophy & Religious Studies and English.
My web site's purpose is a number of things: it's a place to put various writings, a repository of files, notes for things I do not want to forget, and it fulfills a somewhat nerdy and possibly vain desire to document my work and fun. It's also where I like to play with CSS design. So if you are a regular visitor (this site has a huge audience ;), you'll notice, on occasion, drastic changes of layout and design all accomplished via CSS. There will never, I don't think, be a lot of graphics. Mostly I'll just implement various positional strategies.
Thank you for visiting. If you have any questions or wish to contact me, my email address is below.
See my blog: http://blog.freeopeninfo.org/
Volunteering
Visit BWORKS to see where I volunteer. Now that I do not live in St. Louis my primary responsibility is the ByteWORKS Webmaster, but there are some projects that can be worked on remotely and I try to do what I can. By the way, we're always looking for volunteers to add to our wonderful group of dedicated, intelligent, and giving people.
Hosting
Thanks to SDF for hosting and for community. SDF is not a web hosting company, it's an online community where folks gather in the spirit of the BBS. My username at SDF is cowl. See you there.
