Once upon a time when I worked in IT land “amarkpark” was a folder I made to temporarily “park” some files on a remote server… Eventually I had such folders on all my branch DCs and the folder had been shared and perhaps synchronized or set to roam. “amarkpark” contained essential tools of my trade: installers, batch files, drivers, patches, scripts, executables… It was my technical Bag-of-Holding™.
I got so used to browsing to or running “amarkpark” that I decided it would make a good domain name. Because, among other things, I might want to park files or content or tools (Oh My!)… and let’s face it, it’s catchy! I also loved that it was wordplay using my username and the word Park. Park can be a verb meaning “to place temporarily” OR a noun meaning “a place to PLAY”. That appealed to me.
AMP stands for A Mark Park
In the first Rails App I created I updated a logo with a tagline: “An AMPed Web App” and a new identity was born.
Amp evokes… energy, electricity, current, and the act of souping something up. The word is charged with meaning. (Pun fully intended.) I love it.
I tag code and comments with “~AMP”. I use an Ampersand symbol too… because it’s a code joke. At least to ME.
Perhaps this page is suppose to be “About” ME. The particular geek behind the &. Trust me, it IS.
~AMP