About
This is my personal blog. My name is Doug Smith, a resident of Huntingtown, Calvert County, Maryland. My wife Eileen and I moved from Pleasant Hill, Ca to Calvert County in September 2001. We drove across country with our cockatiel Chris and parrot Tinker. (The bird’s website.) We left the Golden State after the dot com collapse of 2001 looking for a new life on the Chesapeake Bay. We were married in Prince Frederick in 1988 and always loved this part of Maryland.
My other website is PopularWireless.com. Here I have championed the possibilities of the General Mobile Radio Service and the Personal Radio Services since 1995. This website DougWeb.com gave birth to PopularWireless many years ago.
DougWeb was the the home of the first anti-graffiti website on the Internet, An Anti-Graffiti Web Page. That site and the supporting NoGraf email list later gave birth to an organization created by Randy Campbell, a California Highway Patrol officer, called NoGraffiti.com. NoGraf as it is called, supports the anti-graffiti efforts of police and graffiti victims world-wide. As of October 2008 I serve on the NoGraf board of directors.
DougWeb also supported and continues to support a grass roots effort to save Philadelphia kids one kid at a time, The Ogontz Avenue Art Company. This non-profit is operated by one of the most remarkable guys I have ever met, Pete Doyle. We all call him Mr. Pete.
My interests are lower taxes, common sense, Amateur Radio, emergency preparedness, CERT, ship watching, supporting our troops, geocaching, benchmarking. the Coast Guard and Coast Guard Auxiliary, law enforcement, graffiti abatement, computers and computer networking, writing, local politics – holding our public servants accountable, my neighborhood, my next door neighbors 
, my parrots, and my BEAUTIFUL wife Eileen, among many others.
I was a Senior Producer for Genealogy.Com, and Palladium Interactive and had the great fortune to work for a now Northrup Gruman Company, PRC-Public Sector Inc., as their Director of Customer Service. Prior to that I was the Police Communications Supervisor at the Concord Police Department in California. (The finest police agency in the world, in my humble opinion.) Also during that time I had the privilege of becoming a Level I Reserve Police Officer. In Maryland I fell back on my retail experience and managed a consumer electronics retail store. Mr. Penney provided me with seven years of experience during and after college. My local RadioShack customers may remember me as, Scanner Man. As of October 1, 2008 I am currently unemployed and looking for a new challenge. Resume available upon request. No MLM’s please.
My former business associates can link to me at LinkedIn.com. My Bachelor of Arts Degree is in the Broadcast Communication Arts, Radio and Television. When I was younger I worked briefly in commercial radio.
I’m frustrated with politicians, politics, and skyrocketing property taxes. As I get older I am made poorer by politicians plotting to take away more and more of my hard earned savings. Retirement? Not if the State of Maryland has it’s way. It isn’t the rich that are worried about being taxed into oblivion it is the middle class of this country that have always carried the burden of tax increases and political shenanigans no matter what the politicians claim. When the rich get taxed it always falls back on the middle class in increased prices for goods and services. It is a struggle and always has been a struggle just to keep your head above water with the left running things. I’d rather not refer to myself as a conservative but as a common sense-itive. If it doesn’t make sense we shouldn’t be doing it. Doing it because it feels good doesn’t qualify as common sense.
My blog is about how I see the world. It is a collection of articles from Digg, articles and rants that I write, articles from other blogs, links to great places on the web, our restaurant reviews, and the comments of my readers – you! I have two WordPress blogs. The one here at DougWeb.com and the second at PopularWireless.com. I encourage a community spirit so comments are welcome.
I am no stranger to on-line communities. Between 1990 and 1995 I operated a FidoNet BBS in Network 161, 161/911, The No-Name Yet Genealogy BBS. During that time I was also hub 161/200. While at PRC I ran a VAX based bulletin board system for our public safety customers. (Target Hotline) Once introduced to the Internet it was only a matter of time before I began a BBS at dougweb.com. This on-line community later became PopularWireless.com. My new on-line community opened here at DougWeb.com on March 6, 2008. I supervised help-desk communities as part of my employment at various jobs. The last major effort was a HelpSpot community that brought the company out of the help-desk dark ages.
I am a big believer in on-line presence, proper use of social media, and superior customer service using those on-line tools. My career and my knowledge grew with the Internet and I continue to use my expertise whenever and wherever I can. (Keep in mind I’m looking for work at the moment. Call me!)
Thank you for stopping by.
(How Faster, Better got it’s name)
