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Webmaster Mike / Metal Mike

666 is just a number! Metal is my life!

About Me

I'm originally from PA and moved to AZ in early 1995. I don't plan on moving again anytime soon.
I like all kinds of music, however I have been mostly listening to metal since 1988.
I've been playing with computers since the early '80s which led me to getting my Associates Degree in Computer Information Systems and a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science.
I'm also the guy that did all of the programming for the game Fallen Heroes by A&B Entertainment. Fallen Heroes won the best Strategy/Logic game of the year at the Shareware Industry Conference in 1997 and was included in the October 1997 issue of Computer Gaming World.
Unfortunately for me A&B Entertainment fell through two years later and I found out the hard way that computer programmers are like a dime a dozen in Metro Phoenix. At that time I ended up turning my fascination with computers nack into a hobby which ironically is how it all began. Later I started to play around with HTML and PHP coding by hand which has led me to help some bands in the Phoenix metal scene and eventually into a job in web development.
I am currently the webmaster for the following bands:
    12 Ton Sledge Perpetual Death Mode
I also help maintain the following myspace pages:
    Bulldog Productions AZ KOAMA
I also assisted these bands with their website needs at one point in time as well:
    Talk To Sheep (Set up a temporary website for them while their manager at the time was at NAMM. Some of the PHP code I wrote is still in use at the site their current webmaster had set up for them!) Tolerant (I was their webmaster back in 2005.) Vehemence (I was John's go-to guy if he had any questions he needed answered when they had their website up and running.)
I even have my own website that I am playing around with as well.
Why Webmaster Mike / Metal Mike? It's because Scott and Joe from 12 Ton Sledge used Webmaster Mike for my name when they programmed my phone number in their mobile phones and Tom from Bulldog Productions AZ used Metal Mike for his mobile phone!
Remember, 666 is just a number! Numbers haven't done anything to harm you...

My Interests

Basically everything!

I'd like to meet:

I don't want to seem like I'm name dropping because I think I have too many people to list.

Music:

A small sampling of what's in my music collection:

    12 Ton Sledge Anthrax Autumn's End Bach Beethoven Boston Cannibal Corpse Dirtnap (the band from Colorado, not Tuscon AZ!) Exodus M.O.D. Pro-Pain Six Feet Under Slayer S.O.D. Suicidal Tendencies Type O Negative Vehemence

Movies:

Some of what's in my movie collection:

  • Akira
  • Boondock Saints
  • Commando
  • Escape From New York
  • Full Metal Jacket
  • Ghost In The Machine
  • Harlem Nights
  • Hard To Kill
  • Men of Honor
  • Sneakers
  • Television:

    Some of the shows I like are:

      Chappelle's Show CSI Law & Order MASH Star Trek South Park

    Books:

    Some of the books I have read:

      Jeff Foxworthy: No Shirt. No Shoes.... No Problem! Rogue Warrior: Designation Gold Rogue Warrior: Detachment Bravo Rogue Warrior: Echo Platoon Rogue Warrior: Green Team Rogue Warrior: Option Delta Rogue Warrior: Seal Force Alpha Rogue Warrior: Task Force Blue The Making of Microsoft