Howdy, I’m Paul. I am a 21 year old student hailing from Houston, Texas. For the past 4 years I have been in Atlanta working towards a Bachelor’s degree in Computational Media at Georgia Tech.
Technology is my passion. I started with hardware when I was young, designing and building small circuits for fun. I progressed to building, modifying and overclocking computers. Around the time that I moved into college I started realizing the power of the web and turned my interests towards the Internet and web applications that connect people.
I started this blog in 2005 to share my knowledge of technology with others and learn from readers. PaulStamatiou.com has grown substantially since its humble beginnings as a small blog hosted on a Mac Mini in Georgia Tech’s Woodruff dorms. This blog focuses on technology that interests me personally and generally focuses on reviews, tutorials and editorials about whatever is bouncing around in my mind at the moment. In the last three years, I have done some interesting things…
- I interned for Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, California in 2006 and developed the first version of their corporate blog, Yodel Anecdotal.
- Nike featured me in my own online advertisement video after finding several of my posts about Nike Plus.
- Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College honored me with their Success Beyond the Campus Award.
- I am now working to develop and promote Skribit, a startup based around my idea that launched at Startup Weekend Atlanta.
- I attended and covered the Detroit Auto Show and a DARPA event in Pittsburgh on behalf of General Motors.
I read YCombinator Hacker News daily and am a startup advocate. I plan on working on Skribit full-time after I graduate in December. I am a Mac user and before that I had become accustomed to Gentoo Linux. While I don’t consider myself a programmer, designer or sysadmin, I know my way around a terminal and know a thing or two about PHP, Ruby, MySQL, CSS/XHTML, Ux and UI design.
I am Greek and hold dual citizenship in Greece and the US. My last name is pronounced Stam-uh-tee-you. Whenever I am in Greece, I can speak enough Greek to find the nearest Internet cafe.
Computing Setup
Paul’s current computing setup involves a Santa Rosa Apple MacBook Pro with 4GB of RAM MacBook Air and a 30-inch Dell display 24-inch Dell display. He also has a cheap file server running Ubuntu 7.10 that he wrote about in a series of posts called DIY: 200 Dollar PC: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. For leisure, Paul setup a 100-inch screen and projector along with 505 Watts of sound in his living room.
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