About Me

My name is Matt Storer, and I’m from northern Vermont. Currently, I’m serving with the United States Peace Corps in The Gambia, West Africa. My primary projects involve teaching computer science courses at the Gambia Technical Training Institute, and developing software for the government. I live in Bakau, with my dog Rhythm. Before coming to The Gambia, I was a software developer in Vermont for the five years between when I graduated from the University of Vermont (B.S. Computer Science, 2001) and when I left to come out here.

I enjoy Taekwondo, reading, hiking, skiing, snowboarding, running, writing software, watching movies, and drinking quality microbrew beer with friends.

So yeah, that’s me in a nutshell.

About This Site

This site was designed by me in mid-August of 2005. It is powered by WordPress 2, running on Linux with a MySQL database backend. This site is my own personal soapbox to the world. In my country, the Freedom of Speech is a guaranteed Constitutional right - as such, I will say that which is on my mind, and say it freely. Similarly, if you like or take issue with anything I say, you’re welcome to post comments at your discretion - just please keep it civil.

The theme currently in use here at One Revolution - the One Revolution Theme, was designed, also, by me, and is based in part on the Benevolence Theme by Theron Parlin.

The image at the top of this page (and in fact every page on this site) is a photograph of me with Lake Champlain (you can see a sliver of it at the far right of the image) and the Adirondacks of New York in the background. It was taken by one of my friends at the top of Mount Mansfield, the tallest mountain in my home state of Vermont (standing at a respectable 4,393 feet), on June 27, 2004. It was taken with a Canon Powershot S400.

I chose the site name “One Revolution” because of its meaning in regard to so much that happens in life and the world in which we live. For example, you have the crest and trough of waves, with each instance representing a single cycle, repeated ad infinitum. Another example is the passage from day into night and into day again. At the other end of the spectrum, you have the beginning and end of the universe, if you adhere to the Big Bang theory which, as far as I am aware, is the most reliable model of the creation (and potential collapse) of the universe to which the best minds of our time adhere. However, the most important, the most tangible revolution to each and every one of us is the revolution of our own lives, our existence. Like the waves that crash forever on the beach’s sand, life will continue to thrive and evolve, but each and every one of us will get to experience a single crest, and a single trough, before our time has elapsed. Our time on this planet is ephemeral. There is no Undo button, and there are no checkpoints to which you can return if, at the end of it all, you want to go back and do things differently. So, the questions I pose to you - the same I’ve posed to myself - are, “What will you do with your day? How will you spend your one revolution? What mark will you leave in the sand to remind others of your existence?” Only you can answer this, and only you can do anything about it.

So what are you waiting for?