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About Me

Born in 1976 and raised in [WWW]Chittenango, NY and was a Rochester resident from Nov 2004-June 2007. During so I did a large amount of work on the RocWiki improving and organizing content. Unfortunately I am an inactive member and will not be making many changes to the RocWiki anymore. Currently I'm an employee at [WWW]Turning Stone Casino Unity Health System Xerox [WWW]Spider Graphics my home office and working various contracting gigs. I have a [WWW]blog and a [WWW]webpage and am also an editor for the [WWW]MSFN (Microsoft Forum Network). I specialize in web based development using a variety of tools, such as; PHP, Perl, ASP, C# ASP.Net, handmade HTML, JavaScript, CSS, MySQL, MS-SQL and Photoshop and have also done Windows development with C# as well being guilty of touching ColdFusion, FoxPro (yuck) and Witango (yuck). I am a Certified Solaris Administrator via [WWW]Syracuse University which I received in 1997. I consider myself a self motivated [WWW]technology evangelist & [WWW]futurist and am always keeping an eye on and making use of new technology both in and out of the computer world. I have a fondness for retro video games, [WWW]video game history and [WWW]tequila.

I currently live in Ithaca, NY, but during my 3 years in Rochester I originally moved to the Park Ave area of Rochester, NY in November 2004 because I accepted a job offer, closing our coffee house Fusion in [WWW]Oneida, NY, selling my house and leaving the country life where I've spend my whole existence. Previously I worked for the [WWW]Oneida Indian Nation (owners of the [WWW]Turning Stone Casino) for 10 years.

Projects & Articles

My projects can be found on my [WWW]blog where I've posted on various subjects (mostly technical) such as:

Non Technical

Technical

In the news

In the Aug 22nd, 2007 edition of [WWW]Buzz magazine we appear in the nightlife photo shots, horrible picture but the direct link can be found [WWW]here.
On May 17th, 2007 my wife appear in a picture and mentioned in an article for her [WWW]role in Ragtime the musical (link gone)
In the Nov 1st, 2006 edition of the Insider I [WWW]appear with my wife for the Halloween 2006 party at Lux
In the March 29th, 2006 edition of the Rochester's Insider my wife and I [WWW]appeared in their 'Snapshots' section.
In the June 7th, 2006 edition of the Insider, some friends and I [WWW]appeared for the "666" (June 6th, 2006) party at Lux.
On August 8th, 2003 my wife (at the time finance) was [WWW]quoted about the major North East blackout from our coffee house

Wiki Pages I Paid Special Attention To

Rochester Places I Highly Recommend

The only good stuff on the Internet

Goals for 2008

Goals for 2007

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May 2003 ... Life is short, drink big!

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June 2006 ... Just began growing my hair longer

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2006-09-24 08:43:32   Hey. I'll like to get together sometime, i have some questions about running your own coffee shop stuff. —FarMcKon

2006-10-08 00:29:35   I don't know how to get a hold of ya about the coffee shop thing, but you can email me at Travis nospam Owens nospam AT hotmail dot com. —TravisOwens

2006-11-06 07:30:19   Yay for my first comment! (I need to network more for my writing, so wiki here I come!) —KaetlinPerna

2006-11-28 13:36:38   You workin at Xerox now? —Roc4Life

2006-12-03 20:20:57   Huge Stalker! Actually cuz you're in the same group as I am, so your IM was somehow broadcast to mine. So I added you, and wondered if it was the same Travis. —Roc4Life

2007-03-26 14:39:40   Making my page obnoxious is a fun form of procrastination :) —RachelBlumenthal

2007-03-26 18:16:32   What happened to "basic information about yourself". This is like a book! :P —KimBee

2007-03-27 21:13:04   Well, "sprinkles" is acceptable if you're talking about the rainbow ones. The chocolate ones are "jimmies". Although recently I learned that this might actually be a racist term, so I feel weird using it, but when I go home, nobody says sprinkles if they want the chocolate ones. —RachelBlumenthal

2007-03-28 18:57:09   According to Wikipedia the term "jimmies" came from the name of the guy who invented them, so I wouldn't sweet it [WWW]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmies/ —TravisOwens

2007-03-28 19:04:33   Thanks for the lyricwiki link — the site appears to be quite extensive, and banner ad free! —GrahamSaathoff

2007-04-08 08:24:49   Re: Wish-list. I just wanted to point out that Wish List stuff *should* list insane, impossible,and a waste of taxpayer $$$ ideas. That's why it's a "Wish List" not a "ToDo" list... :p —FarMcKon

2007-04-10 15:52:34   Local Spelling Words is a system page for specifying custom/local spelling of words. —AdamDewitz

2007-04-16 11:57:01   Hopefully my photos will be worth posting! I think I'm going to wait a few weeks until the weather clears up a bit so that outsiders checking out the wiki see nice sunny pictures and think that they must have heard wrong about all the snow :) —RachelBlumenthal

2007-05-01 17:52:20   *hangs head in shame* The worst is over, though, so I have a little bit of free time... :) —RachelBlumenthal

2007-05-02 11:30:59   Everything is done except the paper, which is about half done. I deserve a few breaks here and there :) It's not due until Friday 5 PM! —RachelBlumenthal

2007-05-18 14:46:54   Travis-sorry if I screwed up your post...I apologize —PeterBoulay

2007-05-21 16:21:14   Those aren't bugs, they're features! ;) Thanks for taking the time to report them. —AdamDewitz

2007-05-22 10:17:00   I wrote out a long comment after a read your page last night, but I don't think I ever hit the "submit" button, silly me. Ah yes, computers. I am somewhat a novice in them. I can write in handmade HTML, CSS and I have some experience with Java, although my grades in the class were F and D at RIT and W at MCC, so I have yet to complete a Java course satisfactorily. But anyways, what was running a coffee shop like? —JoannaLicata

2007-05-23 15:28:10   i hate pie. i bet you love pie. but i hate pie. cake is where it's at. i also hate ice cream. fro-yo FTW. —KimBee

2007-05-23 23:59:22   A patch has been applied to the search engine to remove the apostrophe bug you identified. Let me or RC know if you see any weird behavior (in the search results). —AdamDewitz

2007-05-25 18:27:32   Been to any good operas lately? —MrPhil

2007-06-07 22:46:44   I assure you that no offense is taken over the More Shopping page; it is much improved. My original effort was a quick and dirty cludge to bring back a lot of good, but orphaned, pages back into the fold and to bring attention to them in the process.

There's nothing wrong with commenting on restaurants, but, with the exception of you, Peter and Nathan, it seems like there has been a lot more commenting than actual content providing of late and I thought I'd take a stab at changing that. —DaveMahon

2007-06-26 23:32:21   Travis has left the area for new pursuits...good luck Travis! —PeterBoulay

2007-06-27 03:38:52   I never met you, but good luck in Ithaca. —JoannaLicata

2007-06-28 13:14:04   Hey there Travis, I wanted to let you know I used your photo of Lux for the front page of the website (there is an attribution in the alt tag). We should replace it soon, but wanted to let you know :). If it's a problem please mail me. misha is the first part then the at, then aloosenation.com —MishaCohen

2008-06-09 16:44:21   Travis, maybe I was a little confusing in my post but actually the info I received was a little confusing. I think the $5 cover is just for the bands on Sunday. Day visitors I think are allowed, but sometimes they get all sorts of people just coming to hang out. So I heard a couple slightly different policies on visiting there without an overnight stay. Because it was a bit vague, I did not update the page info and advised people interested to call ahead and get the scoop. I will clarify on the page now. —BadFish