..:: Who is “djlosch” and where does the name come from?

My name, as you’ve probably noticed from the title page, is David Loschiavo. My nick is “djlosch” and I picked it up back in high school when there were 3 or 4 Davids in all of my classes. People generally just called me “losch” (short for my last name), and when I started getting into writing my own DJ sets, dj losch was fitting, especially because my first name is David and my middle initial is J. In undergrad (as an engineering student, and working in the computer lab), it became my username for most systems. Most people on ventrilo/teamspeak and XBL pronounce it either “deej”, “DEE-JAY-LAH-sh”, or “DEE-JAY-LOH-sh”, all of which are fine.

..:: When did djlosch.com start?

I started djlosch.com back in 2004 originally as a place to show off my portfolio and resume. I generally used it solely as web storage, until I wrote a private gallery system for use by my friends and family. I have since removed most of my personal information and turned the site into a tech/politics blog.

..:: What packages run this blog?

I originally ran a homegrown package which was really nice, but found that wordpress had a lot of the work already done that I want. I figure that I’ll just release my mods as plugins or try and push my stuff back upstream.

..:: Don’t you realize that you use punctuation with quotes completely wrong?

I don’t use them wrong. I just use a different style than what is apparently popular in North America. I choose to use logical punctuation, which is heavily used in Australia, New Zealand, and Britain. While it may not be pretty, it’s much easier to see from my writing what the original quotation happened to be. In other words, I’m not “completely wrong”, and I’m not putting punctuation into another writer’s piece. It’s just not typical for many North American writers to use logical punctuation, as North Americans typically use MLA, ABA, or some other variant.