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GROSSE POINTE NEWS, OCTOBER 19, 2006<br />
6A I NEWS<br />
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BRACKEN:<br />
Tapping into<br />
· technology<br />
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"I was good at taking them<br />
apart but not putting them together,"<br />
he said,<br />
He has two working computers<br />
and parts to build six, plus<br />
numerous hand-held electronic<br />
devices,<br />
rr<br />
He remembers his introduction<br />
into the world of computers<br />
was the 282 computer. It<br />
took up an entire table, as opposed<br />
to his laptop which is<br />
about an inch thick, takes up a<br />
small comer of a table and is<br />
earned with one hand,<br />
His first computer, a handme-down,<br />
was a Mac Plus<br />
black and white with an 8 inch<br />
screen, Bracken said there was<br />
no sound and no hard drive<br />
and his experience with the<br />
new Internet was reading bulletin<br />
boards,<br />
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When he wasn't on the computer,<br />
he and his sister, Meki,<br />
would play with Legos, take<br />
trips to the library or practice<br />
his violin. He took no computer<br />
classes in school and still<br />
avoids them at Wayne State<br />
University where he is studying<br />
business administration,<br />
for a change of pace.<br />
At 16, Bracken was in Web<br />
development.<br />
He graduated from<br />
University Liggett School in<br />
1998 and attended Andrews<br />
University but concluded his<br />
studies to join a Web oompany.<br />
Bracken explained that for two<br />
years he was in business management,<br />
consulting and traveling<br />
to the West Coast on a<br />
weekly basis.<br />
"It's long hours of consulting<br />
plus travel plus living in a hotel.<br />
I was not happy. 1wanted to<br />
slow down. 1didn't like the go<br />
go of the consulting world. The<br />
hours here are still long but I<br />
control my own schedule," he<br />
said.<br />
He turned to his life-long<br />
friend McDuffee. Together<br />
they began building a business.<br />
In 2003, Jason Trombley<br />
stepped into the picture.<br />
Working in close quarters,<br />
each has a specific talent that is<br />
tapped into in the business.<br />
McDuffee said, "He<br />
(Bracken) is one of my oldest<br />
friends. I've known him for 17<br />
years and he turned out to he<br />
the boss. We are good friends,<br />
we work together all day and<br />
still hang out on the weekends.<br />
Pablo and my dog are best<br />
friends."<br />
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there will be more and more<br />
computers in the home, in the<br />
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