www.cifrancis.com

Welcome...

Welcome to my web page.  This is a page I created back in late 1994/early 1995 to keep my friends and family (and anyone else who cares) up to date on all the things I have been up to. I don't update it very often, but here it is...

The Latest...

• After over 11 great years with my 1991 Honda Prelude, I traded it in in April 2003 for a 2004 Acura TSX. Take a look at the pics.
• Here are the details of the latest computer system I am in the process of building.(2005)
• I bought a digital camera (a Nikon Coolpix 990) in May, 2000. I created a page of photos that I have taken with it.  It is also a resource of information about the Nikon Coolpix 990 camera itself. I also now have a Nikon D70 Digital SLR.
• Back in early 1995 I created a web site for actress Jessica Steen when I was learning HTML (and also a fan of her TV Series EARTH 2). Since then, Jessica and I have become friends and the page has grown quite a bit with an average of 200 to 250 visitors a day.  If you are asking yourself, just who in the heck is Jessica Steen?  Then I suggest going to the page and finding out.
• Actress Cynthia Preston (currently on General Hospital) saw Jessica Steen's website and hired me to do hers as well.

The Story of George Cifrancis (the short version). I was born in Columbus, Ohio on June 22, 1966. I grew up in Steubenville Ohio, where I lived until I graduated from Steubenville Catholic Central in 1984. One month later, I went back to Columbus, Ohio to go to school at The DeVry Institute of Technology. I graduated from DeVry in 1987 with a B.S. Degree in Computer Information Systems. Shortly after, I got a programming position at the Ohio Bureau of Worker's Compensation here in Columbus, Ohio where I have remained ever since. I am a Programmer/Analyst at the BWC by title, but I mostly do UNIX System/Network Administration. If you care to contact me, please send me some email.


Misc Stuff...

• Film Critic Roger Ebert quoted me in his book Questions for the Movie Answer Man. (My 15 minutes of fame is located on the top of page 207).  Someone had asked Roger a question about a film and Roger quoted me from a USENET posting of mine (which happened to address the same subject). I am even listed in the Index in back! Pretty cool!

• By request of a few friends in distant places, I added a link to show some pics of the condo I had bought few years back (this page was added in 1995 and hasn't been updated since).

Old News OFFICIAL Babylon 5 supplier to Antarctica! The hell you say! But yes! It is true! A friend of mine from Columbus, Ethan Dicks, had spent over a year down in Antarctica to support their network down there at McMurdo Station (he's back now). I had sent all the Babylon 5 TV episodes down to him to keep him up to date. He sent me a nice postcard that was signed by a bunch of the folks down there that attended his B5 viewing parties. Here is the FRONT of the card, and here is the BACK . I had the postcard signed by J. Michael Straczynski (the creator of Babylon 5) when I met him at a Science Fiction Convention here in Columbus (MARCON 31). Joe Straczynski was back in town as a Guest of Honor at Marcon 32. On the subject of Babylon 5, I also have some pictures of the Babylon 5 Guests of Honor that I took at Marcon 31, here in Columbus in early 1996.
 

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Last update: February 9, 2005