The Internet
Cadie, the author of the blog who takes on the screen name of “Quazuku” or “Salodon” started her fascination in computers and the internet when she was eight years old. She quickly taught herself HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language, which is basically the framework of a website) and with help, learned how to build computers at a very young age. Cadie was fascinated by the internet and made it her goal to create her own website. At the age of nine, Cadie had created web page but did not publish it onto the internet with a fear of nobody liking it.
Cadie then tinkered with other forms of computer programming, this time off-line forms. At the age of ten, Cadie had created her first real program in C and had about three web pages and six websites, all of which were on. Cadie quickly leaned and tested other forms of computer programming and easily found her niche in web design and coding. Being fascinated with PHP and JavaScripts, Cadie tested her own forms of the codes at the age of twelve, and had designed many different offline websites, now using IFrames, SSI, and PHP.
She quickly learned about Apache and MySQL but never really found them necessary for the types of websites she was creating. Still at the age of twelve, Cadie decided that she wanted to create her own blog. Having no idea how to create an actual blog, Cadie created a makeshift blog. She was proud of the layout she created, but still was not pleased that it was not an actual blog. Cadie wanted her blog to be unique and something she created completely on her own. After many abandoned attempts due to lack of interest, Cadie decided to abandon her blog and move on to something else, which happened to be a rather successful The Legend of Zelda fan site. Sadly, after nearly a year, the site was destroyed and had no back up. Cadie decided to re-pursue her blogging goal, now fancying other people’s blogs. Cadie admired the simplicity and power of blogs, and wanted one of her own – a real one.
Cadie, who will admit that she is rather unmotivated, perhaps lazy, did not want to (but did try) create a script from scratch to make a successful blog. She knew that it wouldn’t turn out right since she taught herself and didn’t entirely know how to go about doing so. So, not having a domain and defiantly not wanting to pay for one (“It’s just a big lab test. I’ll forget about it and move on with a new idea within 2 weeks!”), Cadie decided to stick with WordPress.
About Me
Cadie suggests that the best possible way to describe her is in an excerpts from her old ‘About Me’ page from one of her old websites: If you take a wad of the most adorable and girlie things ever, mixed with C#, combined with 80’s heavy metal music, with a wad of random animals on top – all in the form of a mystical, bipolar, lazy calico housecat – you would have me. That pretty much sums it up.
Cadie will go through bursts of random happiness thinking about certain animals during a certain period of time. When she made Cow Print a couple years ago, cows happened to be the lucky animal at the time. The transition usually goes in the order of cow, cat, dragon, polar bear, seal, peacock, panther.
Cadie enjoys computer programming, web design, writing, blogging, drawing, painting, sketching, figure skating, poetry, and many other things that fall on the right-side-of-the-brain-creative category.
