In the beginning there was a geek. Well a computer nut anyway. This is a story about that geek.

I have had a home network for as long as I can remember. I had a desktop pc with a printer attached and shared. I had a small four port hub that I could plug my laptop into allowing me to copy files to the desktop pc and print to its attached printer. No big deal standard geek stuff. But I had to be in the office to use it. I couldn't watch TV and as all geek's wifes like to point out I spent to much time in the "computer room". Then along came a little thing called 802.11b (wireless networking.)

After many a sales pitch to my lovely wife Lisa, I purchased a wiresless access point and a wireless card for my laptop. She still wasn't too up on the idea. After the packages arrived I spent about an hour setting everything up.

Lisa was watching Sara Moulton on foodtv and mumbling something like, "now why did you get this stuff again," while I was playing with the freshly un-wired laptop in the living room.

I can't remember what Sara was fixing, but it was something that Lisa liked. She said that she would like to have the recipe. She was about to go get on foodtv.com on the computer in the other room and find the recipe. I stopped her and handed her the laptop. I told her she could look at it from the couch. She pulled up the recipe from the website and then asked if she could print it. I promptly responded..."who are you married to again?"

She clicked the print button . We heard the printer start to whirl and chatter in the other room and begin to spit out the recipe. We were still watching Sara, when my oldest geek-in-training (who was 5 at the time and had been playing a game on the computer with the printer attached to it) walked in and handed Lisa the hot off the press recipe. She looked at me, grinned and said, "now I know why you wanted this!"

About 8 or 9 months after I started my new job, I was telling this story to my friend and co-worker Jack. He stared at me for a moment and proceded to tell me that I was a "big big geek." He's told me I was serveral other things but they don't really apply to this story.

Around the first of 2003, It looked like my part time webdesign work was going to pick up . I wanted to put up a new site for myself. I needed a domain name. I looked for several names but nothing was working. I tried drawing inspiration from one of my sons. His nickname is Drewzilla. This led to drewzilla.com and bluezilla.com but they were taken, believe it or not. I even thought about going back to my old domain name, nt12.com, but someone in Canada had registered it.

Then it hit me...I'm a big big geek. And so bigbiggeek.com was born.

I owe it all to my wife, my little geek-in-training and of course Jack!