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Peter Surowski is a freelance web developer and the Outreach Director for WP Code Camp, a WordPress-based coding boot camp. He's also the founding editor of Temecula Patch. He started the website in October 2010 and left it in June 2012.

He was born in Anaheim just a few blocks from Disneyland, but his parents dragged him kicking and screaming from the happiest place on earth when he was seven and planted him in Canyon Lake. Despite all the fun things for kids to do in Canyon Lake in the late '90s, such as kicking rocks and whistling, Peter holed up in his bedroom, played video games and read comic books for about ten years.

When he was a teenager, he decided it would really irritate his parents if he learned to play drums, so he did. To his dismay, they supported him. He inflicts this hobby on his neighbors to this day.

Somehow, he managed to make a living building websites and giving music lessons through his early 20s. Meanwhile, he had a daughter and named her Annabelle Lee. She makes a mess, disobeys him and costs him a lot of money, but he loves her uncontrollably. He does not know why.

In his early 20s, Peter got tired of trying to be a rock star. He went to college and got a bachelor's degree in history. Failing to find any classified ads seeking professional historians, he took up freelance writing. Something about this work enchanted him. The long hours and low wages likely appealed to his ascetic nature. He was a journalist for 10 years, working for The Press-Enterprise, City News Service, the Long Beach Press-Telegram, AOL and Valley News, among others.

Having failed to learn his lesson the first time, he went back to college and got his master's degree in mass media research and theory. Totally unrelated to his job, he loves reading. He especially loves reading while camping, especially if he's camping in a foreign land. He runs marathons, which are a lot like his college career: long, painful and arguably fruitless.

Today, he lives in Riverside, California, with his wife and his three daughters, who are surviving his parenting rather admirably.

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