CEFM the Site…

This is CEFM.ca the site that is dedicated to me. This serves as a common place for mainly my writings, and rants. The Official Charles E. Frees-Melvin Website is my personal home on the Internet.

CEFM the Style…

If you read through my blog you will notice that my posts are traditionally no longer than 150-300 words. This is due to the fact that I have a short attention span and I like to get to the point in my style. When I wrote essays I typically had 5-6 ideas with 4-5 sub-ideas. I would write a sentence for the 5-6 ideas using all 4-5 sub-ideas. Then I would take all the sentences for all the ideas and reword them as the introduction paragraph. Then I would make sentences for all the sub-ideas. Add a quote or two for each idea and a long-winded conclusion. Then if the word count was too low I would make the quotes longer or add fluff sentences.

With the blog I try not to do fluff and write everything as an opinionated editorial, or just lists such as my awards/election prediction posts.

CEFM the History…

It started in the fall 1997 as a small unvisited Star Trek Fan site on Geocities. Then it ping-pong around the net for several years and by several names (Chuck’s Anything and Everything site, ChuckNET). In July 2002 my photo Gallery began, however being on free hosting then led to problems.

In late 2005 the site was completely revamped to make CEFM.ca the primary domain. At the same time the site was migrated to the WordPress CMS that is in place now.

CEFM the Technology…

This site is a fairly simple WordPress installation running from WordPress Trunk. It is hosted in Vancouver, BC, Canada by my host CanadianWebHosting.com, who are really great hosts. The current theme being used is a highly modified adaptation derivative from “Eos” (available here) by SRS Solutions, but is updated using the newest WordPress has to offer.

This site runs on Linux with Apache 2.2, PHP5 and MySQL5.

CEFM the person…

I was born and raised, in the port city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. I graduated with Honours from Saint John High School in 2001. I was born with a strong sense of dedication to the community and political workings of organizations, probably due to the many years that I was involved in Scouting (1987-1996) and Air Cadets (1995-1997).

I have always believed that anything is possible and that leadership is where I feel more comfortable. I have never really consider myself a writer or author although things always seem to come back to that. I don’t even consider myself an artist really but I some how keep coming back to that as well. Once again, I don’t even think of myself as a computer expert, but others tend to disagree. I have found that success tends to come from thinking high about yourself, always try it anyways, ask questions, take charge and responsibility, and seem confident when you talk.

Now back to about me, after high school I wend to university on three different occasions once for Journalism, and the second time for Business, and an attempt at a pre-law path of a BA with a major in Economics and a minor in History.

In some ways I enjoy being artistic and creative. Making television and videos with friends is definitely a highlight of my time. Also I enjoy changing and manipulating the design and back-end programing on this site.

Since December 1999, I’ve been volunteering at Rogers Television. On March 25th 2004, I decided to run for Mayor of Saint John. I was quite impressed by the warm welcome I received while running. Although in the end ended up with about 2% of the vote with 448 voting supporters, however I believe there were others who did not vote. I was quite politically active, and held a place on the Board of Directors of the Conservative Party of Canada Saint John Electoral District Association from 2004-2008. Participating in the National Policy Convention in March 2005 focusing on strengthening the Party’s constitution.

CEFM the WordPress Bio…

I am a WordPress user and theme tweaker. I have worked on my personal site since 1997 and using WordPress since 2.1. I also like to help other WordPress users hanging around the Support Forums and Trac (as thee17). I have even been known to send patches to core. Right now my interests are in making WordPress a functional Gallery platform using the latest cutting-edge features WordPress has to offer (taxonomies, post types, post formats, post statuses, and widgets). Aside from tweaking my website I help local non-profit groups with their WordPress powered sites and spend my spare time Directing or doing Graphics for the local community TV station.

CEFM the Terms of Use…

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