Wednesday January 29, 2003

Dear Visitor:

I would like to thank you for visiting my new site. On this site, you will mostly find things about me, computers, and scouting. I hope you find this site enjoyable. Before you go on, let me tell you a bit of background about myself, and then you can choose what you want to know more about.

I have visited many places in my life. During family vacations, moves, and other travel I have been in approximately 37 States in my life. I have lived in 4 states those being Utah, Maine, Texas, and California. Canada and Mexico are wonderful places to visit in my opinion. So what does this lead up to... well, I love to travel and see places. I hope that I can visit other countries such as: England, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Finland, Japan, and Australia. These are just the top of my list. In reality, I would love to visit nearly every country in this wonderful world of ours. I just love cultures, languages, and the outdoors; traveling would be the perfect thing for me.

As a child, my parents taught me, and all my siblings, the value of work. My brother and I, when grounded, would be stuck with "hard labor." For a child it was indeed hard, but it gave us time to think, and it wasn't all that bad. We learned how to remodel a home, do plumbing, run electrical wire, frame and finish walls, and many other things. We had a lot of fun working with wood with our dad. We made a closet and a desk a piece, as well as other things. Unfortunately, my father and I were usually butting heads, because I would want to do something in a different, easier, and sometimes better way. I also had a different idea of work schedules. I did learn a lot; for this I am eternally grateful to my father and mother.

Some time before I was 5, I became extremely interested in robotics, electronics and computers. This fascination has continued through out my life. I am not all that hot with electronics, but over the years I have studied computers. I have by the time I was 5 I was writing small games for the computer. By 12 I was doing some small contract program development. By the time I was 15 I was writing graphical games. I gave up on my best, because someone, I believe, stole my idea. Anyway, someone made it to market with a very similar idea. By 17 I was doing web pages, network management and design, and much more contract programming. These days, I do all but the game writing (though I have a few ideas, just not enough time) and I have added network security to the things I do. All I can say is, Unix (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux) is wonderful. I have fallen in love with these and am fairly comfortable and competent with all but Linux; there you might say I am somewhat of an expert.

Another part of my childhood and journey to be a man was the Boy Scouts of America program. I was set up to get my Eagle by the time I was 13, but I made a few mistakes and it was to be 4 months after I turned 15 before I achieved that lofty goal of Eagle Scout. I have been involved, at least on some level, with the Boy Scouts since. I am current serving as an assistant scout master.

Deep down, I have always been a creator and a business man. For these reasons, I dabble in music, writing, graphics, and video. I really enjoy the outlet these offer me. Also, they have come in handy with my professional work.

As I mentioned, I have always been somewhat of a business man. At the age of 12 I came up with an idea for an on-line store. The idea was to make a business that made money by providing products, informational and physical, that helped families be stronger and happier. It cost me many years of little sleep; I would just get so excited or caught up in thinking, that I couldn't sleep. Around December 1997 or 1998 my father agreed to help finance the start of it. In the following March, I began my first business. That e-commerce site is just now beginning to take off. You see, I wrote the software, so we didn't really go live until December 12, 1999 (or there abouts). By May 2000 it had started to fund itself and pay some of my expenses. Eventually it had to be shut down for non-business related reasons.

During the years I have gone by many names. Just in case people are trying to find me, here is a list of those names: King Loui (BBS systems in Salt Lake City, Utah area), Silent Walker, Olorin/Mithrandir, Lasing and now Vichu on irc and webchat. King Loui, because I like Disney's animated The Jungle Book and thought the character fit my moods at the time. Olorin and Mithrandir, again for the mood. They are out of The Lord of The Rings series of books by J.R.R. Tolkien. They are one and the same person. Silent Walker, because I am known for being able to run and walk with very little noise. I tend to scare people, because I will, without meaning, startle them by approaching very quietly and then start talking. Lasing was just an odd nickname I chose because of my interest in lasers and quantum physics. I used it for about a year. Vichu I have been using since the on-line comic strip User Friendly ran a strip with a reference to Picochu, the editing Pokemon, or some such. The real pokemon was Pikachu, one of my favorites. Vichu just fits me.

So, what exactly is a Vichu? Well, besides being the advanced form of Pico-chu, the editing Pokemon, it is also half Tux, the Linux penguin mascot, Pikachu, the Pokemon, Apache (server) Indian feather, and FreeBSD Daemon (said demon). And most of all, it is me.

Well, I think that wraps this letter up. I sure hope you enjoyed it.

Sincerely, Trever Adams

P.S. If you are looking for me in chat rooms, _Olorin_ and Vi-Chu are how they are spelled usually.