The son of a skateboarder, Spencer Semien was on a skateboard himself by the time he was three years old.“All of a sudden, skateboarding became his passion,” says his mother, Marla Sneed.As any parent knows, a child’s passion can be quite expensive and Spencer needed a part-time job to support his skateboarding activities. He already had an interest in computers and, in fact, had built a personal web site, so building one devoted to skateboarding was the logical next step. With the help of his .