My name is Jim Bob Howard and I graduated August 1994 from The University of Texas at Austin with a BBA in MIS.

I spent 8.5 years living in and around Austin, six years of which I was a Sr. Software Engineer for IBM, formerly Tivoli Systems.

…but you can read about all of that on my resumé.

UPDATE: In March of 2005, I left IBM and moved my family to Bristol, VA, where I served as Assistant Director of the Highlands Study Center, working for Dr. R. C. Sproul Jr.

In November 2006, I became the Editor-in-Chief of Homeschooling Today® magazine

My wife, Amy, and I were married in 1994 in Fredericksburg, TX. We currently have four children.

Welcome to the Web: A friend of mine, Niall Gaffney, had a Web Page called Muse Web which first gave me a taste of what I could do with HTML on the WWW. That was back in May of 1992...way before Netscape...Andreesen was still at UIUC/NCSA...Mosaic was still in beta. The Web has changed since then: more crowded, better stuff, alot of junk, dancing baloney. I like it here.

And, boy, have I changed! I really want to leave the previous paragraph intact because I wrote it in late 1992! Here, over 10 years later, this place looks alot different. I've actually been paid to do web development for the past few years and have really let this page go. So it's time to update it. What you see now, is the first attempt at that update. Check back and see what happens.

Married life: My wife and I wanted to go to Canada for our honeymoon, so I played Virtual Tourist and got some information on Canada. This is a great link to find out about almost any place on the globe. (We couldn't afford Canada, so we went to Sedona, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada.)
However, we really wanna make it back to Hawaii

Acting Career: I'm also an actor. You may have seen me in a Country Music Video for Sherrié Austin. I'm the one wearing the red denim shirt. And in 1993, I was in a movie with Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid. I'm even listed in Internet Movie Database.

Voice Work: I've also done the voices on a few CD-ROM video games by Origin Systems: two pilots on Wing Commander Prophecy; a commander on Long Bow 2; and three different characters on a new game, whose working title is Tank Spankers.