About this Site

About the Site

3000 Miles from Home is Aram Kudurshian's personal web site. The site serves two purposes: to promote and distribute software and to provide friends and family with a web site featuring news, photos, and thoughts.

About the Author

An enthusiastic nomad, Aram Kudurshian lives in the Bay Area and works as a software engineer for Apple.

After earning an undergraduate degree in computer science and economics at Hamilton, a small liberal arts college in upstate New York, Aram decided it would be prudent for his health to move to a warmer climate. Attempting to pinpoint his next place to call home, he decided to spin a globe and see where his finger would land. After three failed attempts of hitting the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans, it was time to use some logic to decide where to go. Knowing that he would only be happy working for a company he admired, Aram tried hard and succeeded in courting Apple to hire him to work with the iSync team. Although still unable to live in a location with more than two seasons, Aram is happy to call San Francisco and the Bay Area home and looks forward to never ever having to scrape ice off the front of his car.

Aram enjoys many things, including writing in the 3rd person omniscient narrative. He enjoys traveling, mostly because of his unusual childhood growing up in Finland, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Half Finnish, half American, Aram is also of Armenian descent and while he enjoys the wonderful food, is saddened to admit knowing only two Armenian words and very little else about his heritage. Once asked where he considered himself from, Aram threw an entirely unpredicted out of bounds error while responding, leading to a much shorter and somewhat less logical answer of 3000 Miles from Here.

Outside of the realm of computers, Aram enjoys photography, writing, running, cycling, creating lists, listening to music, cooking and more importantly, eating, volunteering, hiking, sitting in the sun, craft beer, and long romantic walks on the beach. He also enjoys almost all things orange, including his treasured volunteer EMT bag that he left Hamilton with.

Photo Credits

All photos were taken by Aram except for those listed below. These photos were gathered from stock.xchng, a wonderful web site featuring royalty free photos. In the interest of giving credit where credit is due, here are the following photographers used on this site.

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The site was primarily created on Lynx, an aging Power Macintosh G5 running Mac OS X 10.4. System specs have changed somewhat from the original machine bought back in October 2003, mainly because the original was replaced by Apple after breaking down for the third time. Lynx has dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC processors, 2.5 GB of RAM, a 250 GB of space, a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-109D "SuperDrive", and an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 8x AGP 128 MB graphics card. It is woefully underpowered to run Aperture and is self conscious that his owner wished it had an Intel processor instead. It does, however, also enjoy long romantic walks on the beach. It is also attached to it's beautiful 23" Apple Cinema Display and is happy to occasionally sync with a beat up and decrepit Bluetooth phone and a 60GB 5th generation video iPod.

This web site is hosted by the fantastic TextDrive and WordPress is used to power the Journal.