Welcome!
My name is Richard, and I'm a semi-retired Web developer and part-time drone pilot living in a rural part of New York State.
Now that I have the time and freedom to do so, I like building sites about hobbies and other topics that interest me and that I believe will be interesting and helpful to others. Some of the subjects were at some point how I made a living as I have changed careers several times over the years. Others are just hobbies.
By way of background, I joined the military immediately after graduating from Aviation High School in Long Island City, New York. After my discharge, I put myself through college working as a pest exterminator and spent some years in that profession.
When I got tired of killing bugs, I trained to become a computer technician and started a computer repair business in the New York City area. From there I branched off into Web development. About ten years later I sold all of the business except for the Web design part and moved to the country, and have been doing Web development either full-time or part-time for about 23 years as of this writing.
I also have a lifelong passion for aviation and hold FAA pilot and mechanic certificates. Most recently, I earned a Remote Pilot certificate and started a part-time business as a drone pilot doing aerial photography and videography. That's me in the picture below.
My Sites
Here are the some of the informational sites I've written over the past 20+ years. I hope you find them interesting and useful.
Aviation-Related Sites
- Fly Sport USA. Information about becoming a Sport Pilot.
- Fly Part 107. How to earn an FAA Part 107 certificate and become a commercial drone pilot.
- Random Drone Guy. Random pictures and videos of sites that I found interesting, along with historical information about some of them.
Pet Care Sites
- My Turtle Cam. Information about keeping and caring for aquatic turtles.
- My Froggy Cam. Information about keeping and caring for African dwarf frogs.
Technology-Related Sites
- The Backup Nut. Information about computer backup from a preacher whose religion is backup.
- I Scope Stuff. Videos of various everyday things I've inspected or looked at with an industrial endoscope.
- Kitchen Table Computers. How to build a personal computer. Yes, it needs updating.
- RJM Blocklist. This site is mainly for IT professionals. It compiles block lists of IP addresses recently engaged in malicious activity, such as hacking attempts or spamming.
- Spam-Filtered Forms. How to build a spam-filtering contact form using PHP.
Pest-Control Sites
- Scarafaggio's Pest-Control Site. General DIY pest control information.
- DIY Bed Bug Control. Information about do-it-yourself bed bug control.
I hope you find at least one of the above sites interesting or useful (and hopefully both). If you do, please consider buying me a coffee to help defray the costs of hosting the sites. Thanks!
Privacy Policy
This site consists of this one page. It uses cookies to count the number of visitors to this one page and guess at how they got here. You are free to browse this one-page site without providing any personal information at all. I will not share the information that you don't provide because I don't have it to share.
If you decide to buy me a coffee, however, I will have access to whatever information you choose to provide. (I won't share that information, either.)