Why Vortechi.com?
I conceived the Vortechi.com domain name by combining the following words:
1. Vortex
which refers to the chaotic and cyclical nature of life. It is also a vague reference
to the
Total Perspective Vortex, from the fictional world of Douglas Adams's
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
2. Techi
which refers to the term
Techie, a derivative of the word technology, for a person who displays a
great, sometimes even obsessive, interest in technology, as well as high-tech devices,
particularly computers.
3. Chi
which refers to the all-encompassing universal life force believed in Taoism and other Chinese thought to be inherent in all things.
The unimpeded circulation of chi and a balance of its negative and positive forms
in the body are held to be essential to good health in traditional Chinese medicine.
History
Vortechi.com web site's original layout, design, and coding were all hand-coded
in html, css, and php and ran on a Unix platform. Since I am a Software Engineer
and do web development using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, .NET, and C# for a living;
I migrated Vortechi.com to a Microsoft Windows 2003 Server platform in June 2007.
In October 2007, I took it one step further and converted my web site to ASP.NET
AJAX.