Looking to expand without straying far from Hamburg, Lytle sought assignments over the Web.
Despite the loss of two construction clients, Lytle's business has held up in the recession.
Lytle charges a monthly retainer and bills by the hour for big projects.
Using his cell phone, Lytle logged on to the server, fiddled with some code and promptly got it back up.
Always the autodidact, Lytle spends the few moments he can grab for himself learning two new computer languages, hoping to keep his skills sharp.
While recently waiting to have his hair cut, Timothy Lytle, 26, received an e-mail from a client--an e-commerce Web site whose downloading function had crashed.
Lytle is now the help desk guy for a dozen clients, including an environmental cleanup contractor, an importer of agricultural machinery from Europe and a chiropractor.
Floating cargo from Asia to the east coast by boat will always be cheaper, concedes Christopher Lytle, the executive director of the Port of Long Beach.
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Donald Olson and Thomas Lytle of Southwest Texas State University have calculated the tidal forces exerted on the earth by the sun, the moon and the planets.
Home-schooled, Lytle taught himself to program computers at age 13.
But they got a bunch of other musicians to sing the tracks, like Iggy Pop, James Mercer of The Shins, Vic Chesnutt and Jason Lytle of Grandaddy.
Ariana Murray's delicate clockwork waltz "The Thread" provides touching sentimentality, as does "Everytime I'm With You, " a song Lytle originally wrote with the late Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse for the Dark Night of the Soul project.
Lytle says that the years since the last spate of violence have been kind to Beirut, and that a once world-famous cafe and nightlife scene is once again poking its head out in Beirut, and deserves to be reconsidered for its progress.
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When I was twenty years old, I became a kind of apprentice to a man named Andrew Lytle, whom pretty much no one apart from his negligibly less ancient sister, Polly, had addressed except as Mister Lytle in at least a decade.
Lytle, who grew up near and still lives in Hamburg, Pa. (pop. 4, 112), knew he didn't want a career where he would end up like his dad--laid off at age 50 after spending 27 years as a depreciation accountant at a public utility.
In addition to Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, other artists appearing on Dark Night of the Soul include The Flaming Lips, Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals, Jason Lytle of Grandaddy and Admiral Radley, Frank Black of Pixies, Nina Persson of The Cardigans, Suzanne Vega, Vic Chesnutt, David Lynch and Scott Spillane of Neutral Milk Hotel, and The Gerbils.
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