About Scot Hacker

You've stumbled onto my obligatory "About" page. I hate writing this kind of thing, but often find other people's bio pages useful, so ... fair play.

Scot with headphones I'm currently working as the Webmaster at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, where I divide my time between supporting students in their web publishing efforts, co-teaching in the multimedia skills program, webcasting public events, doing general desktop computer support, and helping administer a small farm of Apple XServes. When time permits, I actually get to work on the school's web site.

In a former life I was an active technology journalist. I'm the author of O'Reilly's MP3: The Definitive Guide, as well as Peachpit's The BeOS Bible (both now out of print). I've written dozens of technology articles for PC Magazine, Byte, MacWorld, ZDNet, and others.

These days most of my evenings are spent running the independent web hosting and consulting business Birdhouse Hosting, where I specialize in helping find and implement web technology solutions for journalists and creative types.

I'm a total Mac head.

Over the years I've been an avid surfer and skateboarder, AFS exchange student (Australia 1983), music writer, technology editor, collage artist, hitchhiker, programmer, scuba diver, motorcyclist, etc.

I currently live in California with my wife Amy, son Miles, and two cats. I maintain a near-daily weblog at birdhouse.org/blog.

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Via IM: shacker on mac.com

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