The Home Hacker is a consulting business I began in 1990 to formalize all of the consulting I was doing outside of my "day job." It seemed like everywhere I went, people were asking me to help them with their computer problems, or to teach them how to use their computer.
After a while, it became clear to me that there were a lot of people out there that wanted help — they just didn't know what to ask for. In 1995, my friend Paul Shatsoff and I got the brilliant idea to write a Q & A column where people could send in their questions and we'd answer them. Our first column was published in The Mesh in 1995, and although we shopped it as a weekly column to newspaper publishers around the country, no one bit.
When I began to do web sites for people "on the side," frames were all the rage, and despite the fact that I really didn't like them, it was important for me to demonstrate a frame site for my potential clients. This site is the result.