Hello, I’m Charlie Dillon.
I live in Louisville, KY. I was born here, left here, and returned here…twice. Louisville is, and will always be home. I went to one of Louisville’s many Catholic grade schools, St. Raphael. I attended J.M. Atherton High School, then later the University of Louisville studying basic undergraduate type things. While working and attending college I had a few false starts and ultimately decided to work full-time. I’ve had various computer- and technical-related jobs ranging from large scale copy-jock for Kinko’s(now FedEx Office) to Electronic Prepress Operator for Papa John’s Support Services. Prepress work is what eventually brought me to my current employer, Power Creative.
About a year into my employment here I shifted gears again and focused on multimedia and web development. More recently I’ve narrowed my scope to web development and have stayed on that track for roughly eight years now. I mainly do what I call “making it clicky.” I make other people’s designs work on the web. I don’t create the design, but I cut it up and use a string of acronyms and third-party tools to make it work on the web.
In my free time I fight the eternal homeowner’s battle and enjoy (in no particular order) playing board games and card games, riding and working on motorcycles, learning martial arts, tinkering with Linux and UNIX (mainly for home computing), and generally trying to be more fit without getting to obsessive about it.
The “fourthgate.org” domain started life as 4ourth-gate.somethingorother a long time ago when I was still learning what sort of things did, and did not, make sense on the web. It had, and has, no real meaning other than I liked how it sounded. Since then it has evolved in to the current and more easily conveyable “fourthgate.org.”
Ultimately I plan for this site to contain writing, and project information, and provide a way for folks to get in touch with me. You can do some of that now, but it needs to be better organized and edited. You’ve heard the adage “The carpenter’s home is never finished,” well that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Enjoy and feel free to comment.