Welcome to totehmoon.com
totehmoon.com is my (Jeff Causey) site. It is my personal site that I use for posting my personal opinions and items of interest.
About Jeff Causey
I currently split my "job" time between two different positions. I currently work full time as the Chief Financial Officer for the Durham Housing Authority. I continue to dabble a little bit with running a management consulting business, Strategic Innovations, Inc. that I started in 2004. That "life project" is mostly on hold for the time being.
I'm also a Mini Cooper owner (Cooper S, Chili Red with a White top to be more exact). I got it in February 2008 and I am finding it is a good fit for my photography hobby. It has also afforded me an opportunity to setup a web site and get the car out on a race track. Below is a pic of the car.
Want to reach me via e-mail? It is jcausey at totehmoon dot com. There are other e-mails out there as well you can use, but if you are here, that is probably the easiest one to use.
Resume
OK, my resume is really not right here. I thought it would be, but I decided to put it on a separate page which you can reach via the link in the nav bar above.More Info
- I have been married since 1991 and I have a son and twin daughters. The girls attend elementary school. My son is starting middle school. I am very proud of all of them being straight A students.
- I manage a variety of web sites and enjoy deploying and testing different CMS'es. Some of my sites include:
- www.strategic-innovations-inc.com - my consulting business web site that I setup using the Joomla! system. Kind of stale right now.
- www.ip-wars.net - a web site I setup using the Scoop system for discussion of intellectual property issues. Site is currently down due to a change in servers in the fall of 2008. With the new server setup I'm not sure whether I can get Scoop redeployed - it was a very difficult system to get up and running.
- OIDI - a site I set up with Lewis Mettler to help advocate for the OpenDocument format and other electronic files. The site is currently down and I don't think it is being used any longer. But it did give me an opportunity to deploy the twiki package.
- www.frogdogracing.com - a site that I setup back in the days when I participated in on-line sim-racing. As part of that hobby I also helped with the Bellstar Racing League site (no longer active), Penguin Motorsports, Tombstone Racing, and Blue Cobalt Motorsports. Prior to all of these I had www.frogdog.com way back starting in 1996, but abandoned it a few years later due to money constraints. I've actually given up the frogdogracing.com domain. It did give me an opportunity to develop my html, php, and mysql coding skills.
- Town of Kenly - a site I setup for one of my clients. It gave me an opportunity to deploy the Geeklog blogging platform.
- ToTehMoon Blog - ok, it is part of this site. But it is a sub-part and gave me an opportunity to deploy the Wordpress blogging package. Given the weaknesses of the package (CMS Made Simple) powering this "proper" part of the site, I do most of my writing on the blog.
- BSC U10 Girls Academy Unofficial Site - a site I setup mainly to hold photos I take from the soccer academy my girls participate in, it also serves as a way for me to distribute info to the team since I am the team manager. Deployed it in about 30 minutes using Wordpress.
- A Mini Multi-Tour - a site I setup mainly for fun to try to consolidate all the info I am watching as I hope to participate in several Mini tours next summer. More importantly, it gave me an opportunity to try deploying the b2evolution package. Kind of hard to work with, so I pretty much have abandoned it.
- DHA Skunkworks Wiki - when I started with the Durham Housing Authority, one issue I quickly identified was their inability to archive in an effective way their institutional knowledge. About the same time I was reading about how companies and people were using wikis for that exact reason along with improving collaboration (a challenge for any organization). So I deployed the MediaWiki platform as a test. The plan is to eventually bring it in-house (though I have to get the IT staff comfortable with Linux and F/OSS first).
- When on-line, I seem to spend most of my time at the Tar Heel MINI Motoring Club site. I use to go to North American Motoring quite a bit, but that is fading. I also tend to touch base pretty frequently at the MINI 2 web site, PhillyMini, and NEMINI. I used to watch the SCO v. World lawsuit pretty closely. Unfortunately, the Yahoo! SCOX Board has been overrun with script kiddies and SCOX Board at Investor Village has made their site almost impossible to use in their effort to lock it down to only registered users (and I refuse to register). I also used to watch the Yahoo! EAG Board. However, that company is being liquidated in bankruptcy, so no need to watch it any more.
- I attend Graham Friends Church where I am (hopefully) learning to become a better Christian and person.
- I have helped with the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project. I am not very active right now, but I occasionally help blog about the topics we focus on, push out PRs and beta test the software.
- I once completed a mini-triathlon (The Mission Man in Burlington) and I hope to be able to do one again one day. If I can get in gear, my goal is to eventually do the Iron Duke.
- I serve as team manager for my girls soccer team in the Burlington Soccer Club. They are participating in the Academy program which focuses on individual skills development. They are fortunate in that their coach is Chris Neal, who is the Women's soccer coach at Elon University. I have been very impressed with what he has been teaching them this year.
- I am hoping to one day obtain my pilot's license and fly a real plane. Until then, I am starting to enjoy MS Flight Simulator. Hopefully I may even be able to start up a virtual airline as part of that hobby. That would let me combine my enjoyment of building and managing web sites with virtual flying. Kind of like several years ago when I enjoyed on-line sim-racing.
- I have a Nikon D40 that I enjoy working with on my photography craft. The girls' soccer provides a great opportunity for sports photography as you may note from some of the albums here. I managed to get several photos of mine published in an article in Alamance Magazine about the BSC. Owning a Mini and being part of a club also provides numerous photo ops. That has resulted in a couple photos of mine being published in MC2 Magazine as part of an article about a Blue Ridge Parkway tour the club went on in the summer of 2008. I also had a picture accepted over at the Roadside America web site on their entry about Bridal Veil Falls.
- As a result of the aforementioned Blue Ridge Parkway tour, me and my wife are now Blue Ridge Parkway End-to-Enders. I hope with another journey in 2009 to repeat the feat in the opposite direction.
