- Introduction
- Background
- Major Issues/Causes I Support
- The Paranormal
- About This Site and Web Development
- PC Gaming
What's up? I'm Augur, or Sean From IT if you've seen the Captain Morgan's commercial. I graduated from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, the number one ranked engineering school in the country for the last decade. I majored in Software Engineering (CS now has two meanings, Counter-Strike or Computer Science...lol) and I did a co-op at Sony DADC in Terre Haute, IN. I'm a Systems and Network Administrator there (or something like that). Basically, I take care of hundreds of servers across the Western Hemisphere. Windows, Linux, Unix, Cisco...as heterogeneous of an environment as it can get. I graduated from Holmes High School in Covington, KY. Not only did I take the best advanced placement courses in all of Northern Kentucky, but through Chapman CTC I was able to complete all four semesters of the Cisco Networking Academy Program. Sweet, huh? Chapter 2: Background
I was raised in poverty in the city of Covington, Kentucky. It's the fifth largest city in the state (pop. 43k) encompassing most of Kenton County and it borders Cincinnati, Ohio to the north, making it a vital part of the Cincinnati Metro area which stretches as far south as Walton (where a gas station proudly declares itself to be in "South Cincinnati"). Covington was founded by Germans in 1815 and many of the neighborhood names reflect this, such as Mainstrasse where they annually hold an Octoberfest and a Mayfest. I grew up in Austinburg, a historic neighborhood on Covington's east side that stretches from 17th to 21st streets, next to the Wallace Woods and Lavassor Park neighborhoods. This is where I met my best friends growing up. I attended Sixth District Elementary, Holmes Junior High School, Holmes Senior High School and Chapman CTC, and spent my Saturdays and Sundays at St. Benedict's Cathedral and Eastside Church of the Nazerine. I am truly the product of Covington's great education and moral instruction systems. You cannot know me without knowing where and how I grew up - from fishing on the banks of the Licking River to watching the WEBN Labor Day fireworks each year on the Ohio River, this place gave me the perspective that I have on life, which I've found can be radically different from the hordes of people "growing up in the 'burbs" these days. I did not have anything handed to me and I had to work my ass off to get where I am today. I had to support myself financially by age 15 and would have been working since I was 12 if child labor laws didn't forbid it.
My branch of the Feeney Family immigrated from County Sligo, Ireland to New Jersey in the early 1900s. I think I've found most of my long-lost family members who stayed in Ireland or immigrated to England, but if you think you're one of these get in touch! On my mother's side I'm the descendent of Appalachia's earliest pioneers. You can read about her youth in the farmland of Grant County and how she tried to teach me those same lessons in the city in "Jack in the City", the book accompanying the play by the same name that we performed in.
Chapter 3: Major Issues/Causes I Support
You can now find all of these on my political site, FeeneyForOffice.us.
Chapter 4: The Paranormal
I'm into science and technology and up on the latest in the paranormal. In October of 2001, I founded the Northern Kentucky Paranormal Youth Group (NKYPYG). Our goal was to investigate the paranormal with the highest degree of scientific integrity while having fun doing it. Our core investigative team consisted of Brandon Kuntz, Byron Jarboe, and of course myself, Sean Feeney. We started after-school meetings to educate our members out my high school and expanded to include not only Holmes, but Scott and Conner high schools as well. In the summer of 2004 we reorganized the group as The Anomaly Response Network (ARN) in order to focus more on the general public. Anyone with an interest in the unexplained may join. Our research team has at one time included such famed local UFO researchers as Kenny Young and Donnie Blessing. For more information on NKYPYG, you can check out the old site at www.ufounderground.net and to learn more about ARN you can go to www.anomalyresponse.org.
Chapter 5: About This Site and Web Development
This is the Augury v5. I designed it from the ground up using Notepad++ and Adobe Photoshop CS. It conforms to XHTML 1.0 transitional and CSS 2.0 W3C specs where possible and employs a mix of PHP and JavaScript. This is the second version using Blogger; I chose Blogger in v4 since it keeps track of my blog posts offsite and offers a ton of other cool free features like audioblogging, mobile-to-blog, and an RSS/Atom feed and connects my blog to the Blogger universe. v5 started with the Blogger Beta, which didn't support FTP publishing like the original Blogger so I still had to use a scrolling i-frame on the homepage at first, but then Blogger added hosting of subdomains so now I use PHP includes to include my Blogger content.
I've been a web developer for over a decade now. The first website I ever created using FrontPage was UFO Underground, which is no longer available on the web but trust me, it sucked! The next paranormal site I worked up was NKYPYG's, to which a link is available above. "With the invention of Internet Explorer 5, a wonderful new type of frame came into the fray, the inline frame." I used to think those things were amazing. I've since moved away from them in favor of dynamically driven websites powered by PHP.
When I was an eighth grader at Holmes Junior High I got to create the school's first website. Then when I was a sophomore in high school, I took on the responsibility of becoming the Holmes High School webmaster. This was a tremendous job due to the unstructured design of the website that used to be in place. Even though I kept data from the existing core articles on the site, I pretty much had to start from scratch. To give you an idea of how large the old site was, it took nearly a half hour to transfer the entire wwwroot directory from the NT 4.0 server they were using to the Windows 2000 server Byron and I set up (thanks to
As a freshman in college I created a PowerPoint presentation in my spare time about how Rose should let students work on their (
Chapter 6: PC Gaming
I'm an e-athlete in the true sense of the word. I guess I really started with some 2D games that my uncle setup for me on an old IBM 286 way back in the early 1990's, but I started into FPS (First-Person Shooter) with Doom and Wolfenstine 3D on my 386 computer. Since then I've been hooked on FPS games. Right now I'm probably playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, BF3 or Team Fortress 2. Now that the Steam Friends list is working again, you can add me on there: augur@iglou.com (this email does not work as it is no longer mine, but back when Steam came out it required you to use your email as your login).
I've was in the Cyber-Athlete Amateur League (CAL) off and on since 2003, playing in the Counter-Strike 1.6 and Counter-Strike: Source divisions. CAL was unfortunately disbanded when the CPL was purchased by Asian investors. As President of the PC Gaming Club at Rose I founded the school's CS:S and Unreal Tournament 2k4 teams. I'd really like to start a college league where colleges field teams and play against each other like they do NCAA sports, but I haven't had the time. There is certainly enough interest and players out there, though.
Wanna know more about Sean Feeney? I've moved all of my social networking profile links to the top left of the page.
augur (ô'ger) [from the ancient Latin name for priests at fertility rites] a prophet; soothsayer; seer
augury (ô'gyoo ree) [that which an augur does] prophesying; soothsaying; divination
augury (ô'gyoo ree) [that which an augur does] prophesying; soothsaying; divination
Current Tech Award Rankings:
FBLA - The Future Business Leaders of America
SkillsUSA-VICA - The SkillsUSA Competition of The Vocational Industrial Clubs of America
CH1 SPW - Channel One News Student-Produced Week
1st Place in the entire United States - CH1 SPW Webmaster (2004)
1st place in the entire state of Kentucky in SkillsUSA Web Design (2005)
2nd place in the entire state of Kentucky in FBLA Network Design (2005)
2nd Place in the entire state of Kentucky in FBLA Technology Concepts (2003)
2nd Place in all of northern Kentucky in FBLA Website Development (2004)
1st Place in all of northern Kentucky in SkillsUSA-VICA Technical Math (2004)
1st Place in all of northern Kentucky in SkillsUSA-VICA Cisco Internetworking
(2003 and 2004)
1st place in the entire state of Kentucky in SkillsUSA Web Design (2005)
2nd place in the entire state of Kentucky in FBLA Network Design (2005)
2nd Place in the entire state of Kentucky in FBLA Technology Concepts (2003)
2nd Place in all of northern Kentucky in FBLA Website Development (2004)
1st Place in all of northern Kentucky in SkillsUSA-VICA Technical Math (2004)
1st Place in all of northern Kentucky in SkillsUSA-VICA Cisco Internetworking
(2003 and 2004)
