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About Warpspire

Warpspire is Kyle Neath’s home on the web. Here he shares his projects, his past portfolio, and his journal of thoughts. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Cal Poly.

Why does he write about himself in the third person? One never does find the answers to such things.

Getting in touch

If for some reason you’d like to talk to me, feel free. I’ve got various methods of contact listed below. I don’t bite. Well, not often.

Addendum concerning Instant Messages

If you intend to communicate with me via IM, I simply request that you use common sense and follow these quick rules:

  • Do not IM me saying “who the hell is this?” I will block you.
  • Do not introduce yourself and expect me to know you as some kind of celebrity. “I’m Greg from Florida” does not constitute a conversation.
  • Do introduce yourself. If you continually bombard me with “Are you there??!?!?!?” I will not respond, and I will block you if your actions continue. A simple “Hey, this is Greg - I have a question about Hemingway” does wonders towards first impressions.
  • Do have a reason for talking to me. I am generally a busy person, and I have a lot of friends I enjoy talking to. Do not IM me expecting me to entertain you if I do not know you.

I didn’t want to have to put these rules up, but due to many people who expect me to be their source of entertainment, I’ve been forced to. All I’m asking for is a tad bit of common sense. The internet is a big place, and just because you may know me - doesn’t mean I know you.

Interesting Facts

  • I’m currently 23 years old.
  • I like drumming. A lot. Unfortunately it would seem my neighbors do not.
  • I’ve memorized various constants while at college. Here’s a few:
    • The elastic modulus of Steel: 29 x 106 psi
    • The Capacity of an average concrete truck: 9 yards ( The whole 9 yards )
    • The density of water: 62.4 lb/in3
    • The stiffness of a fixed-fixed beam undergoing 1 unit displacement: 12EI/L3
    • The weight of one sack of cement: 94 lbs
  • I’m obsessed with doing this right, from the start. Always.
  • There really isn’t a better drink than a Captain & Coke
  • Music is the best shit since sliced bread. Really.
  • Three months after taking web design seriously, I was working with world-class brands.

Warpspire.com

Warpspire is powered first and foremost by Wordpress along with a few plugins, and a custom plugin I call Warpspire Glue that powers the tags, sidebar, and other cool stuff. This is currently the 4th½ iteration of Warpspire. A breif history follows.

October 2003 - August 2004

Initially launched with a very interesting design (take a look). The site served no purpose and had about 3 pages of content. About two weeks later, it re-launched with yet another ineteresting design (take a look). Still served no purpose and still got no traffic.

Take a look at version 1
Take a lok at version 2

August 2004 - March 2005

The ‘golden years’ one might say. I re-launched Warpspire with a hacked-to-hell version of Wordpress and a pretty cool design. It was my second tabless design and got featured a few places: CSS Vault and CSS Beauty. Since then, this design has been featured at around a dozen sites covering about 5 languages. Too many to count. This was my first experiment in blogging and it ended fairly well, I suppose. The format of the site made me lose interest fairly quickly.

Take a look at version 3

March 2005 - July 2005

All quiet on the western front.

July 2005 - November 2005

Relaunched the blog with a default, clean install of Wordpress 1.5. Starting writing so I could get content back up while the real 4th iteration of Warpspire was under works. Content flowed forth, but no real structure was found. Simply a placeholder while I could get the real redesign up.

Currently

The latest redesign has taken me nearly 6 months to complete and gone through 3 major design re-directions. I think I finally ended up a place where I can live for a while. Plus, the design is a bit more flexible in every way possible. I can just do more with it.

As of Nov. 17, 2005 Warpspire is has been part of the 9rules network.

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