First Video Post

My 3 year-old daughter, Caitlyn on the drums at my church (Living God Baptist Church, in Portland, OR). This was taken Christmas 2007.

What's up Josh & Hugh

Hey Josh Lyons (center in image above) and Hugh "likewater" Ly! This post is all about these two guys. They both work for me building systems and sites for home remodeling and home improvement services. Hugh Ly has amazing talents with his site designs for kitchen remodeling, bathroom remodeling, and all home improvement related sites, newsletters and services.

Josh Lyons builds and maintains a great system for matching contractors to homeowners looking for home improvement projects. The systems helps homeowners find a contractor, which can be a difficult task.

I must give props to these two guys as they have really helped me in the development of my company. Good work guys!

The ORIGINAL Jack Phan

It's amazing how the Internet has evolved over the years. I remember up to about a year ago, when I Googled my own name, I would find the essay First Time Home, which I wrote for a class at Pacific University in 1997 after my first trip to Vietnam. That was always the #1 result for "Jack Phan". Now when I search, there are so many other "Jack Phan's" (all very successfull it seems). There's Jack Phan, the Phd. Jack Phan the Mathematician. Jack Phan the bio chemist...and several others just by Googling "Jack Phan".

So, in an attempt to preserve my #1 ranking (owing jackphan.com definitely helps), I hope to make sure that the original Jack Phan is ALWAYS #1!

Other Jack Phan's out there? Say "hi" by posting a comment!

Where are my friends?

"If a tree fell on my blog, (and I make a post) but nobody's around to hear it, does it actually make a sound?"

Good question! Reality is, probably not! Therefore, this is my callout to all my friends, (past, present and I guess future) to come one come all to JackPhan.com. If this blogging and Google thing really works, I'm just going to post your names in this post, and if by chance you search your own name, you'll find yourself...here...with other recognizeable names. Sound good?

From Pacific University (mostly not in the US):
Takuya Sassa, Shuya Miura, Yoshiko (Miura?) Take & Maki ?, Bungo Ohata, Yuka Watanabe, Tomo Tanaguchi, Taiji Fujiwara, Satomi Suzuki, Okumura ?, Keisuke Takahashi, Eisuke & Masako Takeda, Shuji ?, Yayoi Yoshida, Aiko Azuma, Yuko Mori, Kanai Family (Hiromasa Kanai, Yukiko, Kento & Enna), Mie, Eric & Rebekah Chen, Brandon Park (Myung Woo Park), Matt Lee (Min-Sang Lee), Hugh Ly, Jack Trummer, Jimmy Tang, Dr. Jeffrey Barlow, Karen Lee, Patty Im, Ben Hoang...if I forgot anyone or if you remember others, please post a comment...

My 2nd Post!

Okay...so this is my 2nd post! This blogging thing isn't so bad after all. In fact, if I can get my friends and family to my blog regularly, they'll be able to see what kind of things I've been up to.

Also excited about these new "elements" I've been able to add to my blog. Things like the slideshow, links, polls... all pretty cool and allows me to actually have more content on my blog.

Now that JackPhan.com is live, let's see if anyone actually comes here. I guess that's really up to me to add interesting content that would make people want to come here.

If you have any ideas, feel free to post a comment!

My First Blog

This is the 1st post in my new JackPhan.com Blog!