About Unvarnished

Unvarnished is the personal blog of Travis F. Smith. And that, dear visitor, is the last third person reference you will find on this highly personal site.

Here I share the places I go, the visions I see, the things I do -- and a glimpse of the thoughts I think as I go and see and do.

About This Site

I've been keeping this blog since 1998, and I've been keeping journals and photographs since I was wee and precocious. There are thousands of entries, and I hope you'll dive in and enjoy.

The site is run in Expression Engine now, and used to be in Movable Type until the spam and rebuilding got too bad. Before that, I used a self-made Filemaker -> AppleScript -> Perl -> HTML thing. I've written a large amount of custom code to make everything flow nicely.

And yes, it is supposed to scroll way to the right like that. This is the only blog I know of that's designed to be completely horizontal. There may be others. Perhaps you know of one and will whisper it to me.

Update Nov 2005: I've now been told of two others. So I'm the third. That's good, that takes some of the pressure off.

Travis F. Smith's Bio

Looking for a bio? Check here.

Mug shots and other photos are also available.

Travis F. Smith's Resume

I updated my resume in April 2004.

I'm sure you can display the HTML version.

It's easy to e-mail and scan the text version.

Recruiters seem to like the Word 2000 version.

More Resume Options

The Word and text versions together are handily downloadable as a zipped document or a Mac disk image (dmg).

The PDF version (Adobe Acrobat format) will print out just right no matter what system you use -- on 8.5" x 11" paper, that is.

An RTF version is a last resort -- if you need it, here it is.

Questions?

Contact me.