Just the Facts
My name is James Martin.  This is my personal site.  My nickname is “Wheat” (or, the longer form, “Wheatbread”).

Brief Biography
I was born in 1970 in Ft. Worth, Texas. In my formative years, my family relocated to Huntsville, Arkansas. After high school, I had the good sense to move down the road to Fayetteville, Arkansas and study at the University of Arkansas. At the U of A, I earned three degrees (BA & MA in English, M.Ed. in Educational Technology), met my wife, played in several bands, and finally made the transition from restaurant work to what most people would call a “real” job.

In the fall of 2003, My wife and I relocated to Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, which is just outside Charleston, so she could pursue a degree in pharmacy (which she sucessfully completed in the spring of 2007).

In January 2008, our son, Haden, was born.  We’re pretty crazy about him.

Jobs and Such
I work as a software trainer in the Information Technology division of a local technical college. On the side, I teach online college English classes, play music, read, and tinker with websites. Here’s my resume, if you’re interested in hiring me for a consulting project.

Et Cetera
Pets:  We’ve had many over the years. Now we just have Niles.

About the Blog
Wheatblog, my online blog/journal/whatever-you-want-to-call-it has been online since July 13, 2000. When it began, I used Blogger to maintain it, but then I decided to create my own blogging software. I started an open source project in 2001, which, for lack of a better name, I also called “wheatblog” (though I later named it “wheatblog app”).  I used my own software to maintain the site until late May 2008, at which point I ported it over to WordPress.  I’ll probably never get around to porting over the comments.

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