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 The suggestions and advice in this guide are from my life experiences. Not all of what I say will apply to you but it is my hope that we might find, together, at least a single thread of universal truth. In order to know, I think it makes sense to briefly review the anatomy of my work life from inception until now.
 
-I'm currently 32 year old, and I started working with computers at a very young age. I had a very bright childhood friend named `Brian Brennan <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlO2_GecWo8>`_ who although he was younger than I, was my first mentor regarding computers. At age 9 we played lots of video games, original playstation and Nintendo 64, as well as countless hours of computer games on his Gateway computer. At one point Brian learned how to make the computer work for him instead of us working for it. We started learning HTML and Javascript together. I didn't have the Internet on my computer at the time, but my family did have a WebTV so I started building HTML web pages for things I enjoyed and hosted them on Geocities.
+I'm currently 32 years old, and I started working with computers at a very young age. I had a very bright childhood friend named `Brian Brennan <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlO2_GecWo8>`_ who although he was younger than I, was my first mentor regarding computers. At age 9 we played lots of video games, original playstation and Nintendo 64, as well as countless hours of computer games on his Gateway computer. At one point Brian learned how to make the computer work for him instead of us working for it. We started learning HTML and Javascript together. I didn't have the Internet on my computer at the time, but my family did have a WebTV so I started building HTML web pages for things I enjoyed and hosted them on Geocities.
 
 Flash forward to age 13, I finally had dial-up. Now we didn't pay for dial-up, in fact my parents didn't know I was "connected" as we used to call it, but I was connected. I had the setup username and password of our regional phone company, I was living the dream free Internet running over speaker wire convertly routed from our closet to the computer room.
 
-I spend my highschool career building HTML pages instead of powerpoints for projects. At home I built my own computers as so many of us did back then and gamed all night during LAN parties where we traded "warez" and "pr0n". I was 15 when we got A-DSL 125kbps down / 15kbps up. I started hosting my websites from my house on a Windows server and later converted it into a FreeBSD server.
+I spend my highschool career building HTML pages instead of powerpoints for projects. At home I built my own computers as so many of us did back then and gamed all night during LAN parties where we traded "warez" and "pr0n". I was 15 when we got A-DSL 125kbps down / 15kbps up. I started hosting my websites from my house on a Windows server and later converted it into a FreeBSD server. I educated myself in the computer labs and libraries with my friends. We basically had an informal club. For more details about this era, checkout my long time friend Charles Hooper's `"How I hacked my high school" <http://www.charleshooper.net/blog/how-i-hacked-my-high-school/>`_ blog post.
 
 When I was going to community college for Computer Science, I worked for my parents part time and at Sears in the electronics department, slinging "HDTVs". At the time I was working 40 hours a week and doing 4 courses a semester. I didn't have time for games and I mostly resented Sears. I hated how cruel companies where they actively shit on their employees. I spent my lunch breaks in Boarders reading all the computer books. I started hosting my parent's small family business website which I coded by hand.