nags of a similar ilk

How many times will I write and rewrite one of the first pages someone who doesn't know me will read? How about no more than twice?

Welcome!

My name is Kitt Hodsden. This is my personal website.

Somewhere herein, you'll find things that interest me, things I'd like to share with the Internet®, and things I'd like to remember at some point in the murky future. This site is, however, more for me than you.

I grew up in Indiana and ended up in California via Arizona. I've lived in California for more than half my life now, both Southern and Northern. I currently live in Northern California with my husband, Kris McQueen, and our two beagles, Bella and Annie.

I do freelance/consulting work for a living (my resume). I've certainly had my share of "real jobs" (over six in the same time Kris has been at one), but I certainly prefer the flexibility of working from home in my PJs at 2:00 am to a strict 8-to-5-you're-fired-if-you-come-in-at-9 schedule (yep, had one of those).

I do a lot of work in PHP, though I also work with Perl, Java and C++. I'm happiest using Linux as my operating system, but I'm content on a MacOSX box. Half the systems in our house are that other operating system, but, well, that's to be expected given the number of computer geeks in the house.

I like ultimate a lot. I play as much as I possibly can. I run one league, help with another and build ultimate-related websites for fun and work. I currently play for Mischief, a Mixed team in the hardest, we're-big-enough-to-be-our-own-region Northern California section. I used to train at the ASA Baseball Academy, often with Giuseppe Chiaramonte, an ex-Giants catcher, which was an incredible experience. I now train at Velocity Sports.

Oddly enough, most people think I'm a guy before they meet me, or if they have interacted with me via only email or on the phone. Most people assume programmers are male, and the name Kitt doesn't exactly specify gender. If I went by my original, given name, well then, you'd be at a different website right now.

The site was named by James Pine, a friend of mine and ex-coworker. The two of us were partner programming and I was bugging him about changing something. When he declined to change whatever it was, I changed tactics, but continued to bug him. He asked me if I was going to continue with these "nags of a similar ilk." I liked the name. It has a better ring to it than iKitt. Though, James Byers has suggested "Kitt Co. Heavy Industries."

Everything I've created on this site is © by me, under the Creative Commons License. In particular, by the Attribution NonCommericial NoDerivs license. Read the license carefully before using content from this site.

Any content here that I haven't created, I've included attributes and copyright details when I knew the source. Such content is copyright the original author/source, and not me.

If you'd like to contact me, I'm easily reached. Please note that any email sent to me can be quoted on this site. I dislike publishing email addresses on the web (a lot of email spam comes from website harvesters), but reserve the right to do so when quoting any particularly hateful or virtriolic email received.

If you prefer regular mail, I can be reached at

Kitt Hodsden
P.O. Box 1812
Mountain View, CA 94042-1812

My most common verbal bits of the moment are "Okay, so" (an enduring Kitt-ism), "nominally", and "pretty much". Older ones include "random", "N number of" and "hilarous". You can pretty much track my speech patterns from my Kitt-isms.

So, poke around, enjoy the site. If something is inaccurate or if I accidently didn't give credit to the proper author, please let me know.