I’ve been online since 1994 (originally via MoasicInABox), and blogging since 1999.
I’m from Petrolia, birthplace of the world’s oil industry (used to be claim to fame, is now a bit shameful, what with all the global warming etc). If you look really hard, you’ll find that I created the wikipedia page for Petrolia, Ontario.
I’m interested in the paranormal, spirituality, hidden-knowledge, conspiracies, and alternative medicine.
I like to travel and have been to england (london, brighton, salisbury), france (paris), netherlands (amsterdam), spain (barcelona), croatia (zagreb + all over), bosnia (sarajevo), serbia (belgrade), greece (athens, patras), italy (bari, rome, assisi, venice), austria (vienna), peru (cuzco + puno), and the united states (pennsylvania, ohio, michigan, florida, colorado).
I have about 200 gig of mp3s, and once had a discussion on Bravo TV’s “Richler Ink” with the Director of the CRIA about that fact. I have an honours double major B.Sc in psychology & computer studies (not programming, but theory).
If I were to leave web development, it would be to become either a) paranormal investigator; b) a handyman; or c) a naturopath. I was a professional theatrical lighting & sound techie for 6 years, and did over 400 shows. I’ve also worked in an oil field, managed a student refrigerator company, owned a house painting franchise, been a house painter.
I was raised roman catholic, but became a buddhist round about 2000… Now I think I’ve finally settled on just being me.
If you’re here to recruit me, please first read my linkedIn resume and my stackoverflow resume.
If you want to stalk me, you can subscribe to my “lifestream” at http://life.derekmartin.ca — it consists of all my blog posts, my flickr photos, my youtube favourites, my currently playing song in iTunes, my amazon wishlists, my twitter tweets, and my facebook status. Yep, it’s a regular Derek-buffet.
If you’d rather not have the buffet, you can find me anywhere by my username, which is always: lo_fye (except on stupid sites [youtube] that don’t support underscores, where my name is lofye). The name lo_fye is a play on hi-fi. Hi-Fi is short for high fidelity, aka crisp, aka true-to-reality. Lo-Fi would then be low fidelity, aka distorted, aka fuzzy, aka true-to-reality 
I don’t think anything is black-and-white. Life exists in the grey fuzzy area…
I am currently living in London, Ontario, with my long term hotness, Ula.
Hey Derek!
I got invited to a buck n doe over Facebook for a Derek Martin and I was sooo excited, only to find out it wasn’t for you. I went on a hunt, searched Derek Martin, find a website, do some exploring and here I am leaving you a note saying I found you!!
I hope things are going well, feel free to send me an email with your updates! Hope London is going well. I’m back in Brantford so not too far away!!
i don’t think it is shameful at all when talking about Petrolia and oil. Most things that are discovered have a down side, but one has to look at all the inventions that came from the production of oil. I have a great book on the topic. I’m just sayin ! I think you can continue to be proud of your old home town.
Hi Derek,
I have a few questions about your propel-cache implementation.
In this link http://obvioushints.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-i-would-like-to-use-propel-and.html you can read the original post that resulted in this comment:
I’d appreciate if you share your experience , specially about the flexibility of the resulted implementation, why you chose the controllers instead of the models? Also, where can I find the documented procedures?
Thanks.