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last updated 20 March 2003

  • NEW!Stickerchief -- My rulebook for a game that I actually found presented as a game for kids. The second sponsor was chosen for a good reason. I've actually played this a couple of times, but I wouldn't consider it for the kiddies without some good goggles at least.
  • My Roadgeek page -- While I wouldn't consider myself a hardcore roadgeek like some, I always did have a fascination with flashing arrows. This is what comes of it.
  • Make Your Own Religion -- Where to go and get yourself the right to call yourself an honest-to-whatever-God-you-have-in-mind minister.
  • On October 9 (John Lennon's birthday) my sister had a baby.
  • A few pictures of me.
  • Yet Another Open Source Hub -- My own personal hub for major Open Source projects. 11 June 2001
  • My CueCat Software -- Digital Convergence is a company in need of a spanking. I've updated my site to reflect my experiences using a USB CueCat on a Mac. 15 May 2001
  • My Beer Page -- Beers I like, beers I make. 7 may 2001
  • About my guitar thing... This is a collection of guitar links. Not an exhaustive one, just the ones I find useful or interesting. Feel free to make suggestions. 4 may 2001
  • Steal my code! If you really want to... 4 may 2001
  • I have begun redesigning my site. It's about freakin' time. I've gone with a bluish color scheme and lots of pretentious noncapitalized words. 26 april 2001
  • The Blinkenlights Page -- A quick summary of the history of Blinkenlights signs. (btw, does anyone know how to say stereotype in German?)
  • Waduzitdo 2001 -- a modern spec (and soon, implementation) for a very small early PC programming language. Quite strange and pointless, but fun.
  • Messenger -- A sci-fi novella I'm writing.
  • My Recipes Page -- Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, this is my page of many of my favorite recipes. Enjoy!
  • Joe Deveau is a friend of mine with a band and he was surprised I don't have a link to him. His band plays mostly original material of an R&B-meets-Dave Matthews nature in the Boston area; check it out.
  • The Blather Mailing List -- for the creative writer in you.
  • Brian's Quality Software -- some software I've written. Covers pretty much everything I've uploaded.
  • NEW! This site is about due for a major overhaul. Over the next two weeks, you'll find things shifting around a bit; see the progress at indexnew.html.
  • Yes, I know this site's pretty geeky, but I used to work at a Starbucks nevertheless. The Coffee Page contains some of the coffee wisdom I've picked up in the last two years of slinging espresso; take a look. I'm quite proud of it.
  • Another Slashdot posting of mine. This one covers the history of BSD in a few rather interesting pages. It's a story that I think a lot of people have forgotten or never learned these days with all the Linux hype out there, and even though I'm a Linux loyalist I'm just doing my part to make sure it stays out there. I very much respect the work the BSD folks are doing (all four major variants) and feel that even though I'm not in their camp, they deserve the visibility. More power to you guys.
  • var'aq is about to go live. It's a programming language for Klingons, and it's probably one of the coolest computer project ideas I've ever had. To see what happens when linguistics, computers, and Star Trek collide, click here. Downloads available.
  • I contributed to a Slashdot discussion on the subject of Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU project. My comments were moderated up to (2; Interesting), so I figured someone would be interested in reading them. As you will see, though I respect what Stallman has accomplished a great deal, I don't have much respect for the extremism of his philosophies. Why is Richard Stallman a Crackpot?
  • I've begun to gather my Lego stuff into a unified Lego Mindstorms section now that I finally own a set. The featured attraction is the Comprehensive NQC Archive Network, which should be in full swing by the end of March.
  • The "Which Set Should I Buy" Lego Robotics FAQ is a brief rundown of the state of the art in the Lego Mindstorms world for the beginning robot hacker. As I write this it's still sort of beta quality, but if you feel the need to build yourself a robot, this is all the information you need to get started.
  • The Turing Tarpit -- the successor to my original Bad Languages Page, the first (but not only) page devoted to the most perverse products ever created by the computer language scientists of the world.
  • The Dusty Deck Museum -- a tribute and link site for old commercial software and retrocomputing projects, with just a touch of soapbox thrown in for good measure. See the Antique Mac Software special report on Macintouch if you want to know in more detail what this will be about.
  • NQCIPC--A bit of code that I wrote for Lego Mindstorms and Cybermaster programmers, it provides basic task-synchronisation and messaging functions that Dave Baum's Not Quite C language's runtime doesn't include. It requires NQC; it won't work with the vanilla Mindstorms software.
  • My resume, as of 17 January 2001. If you want to give me a job, I'm looking for something along the lines of apprentice Unix hacker. If you prefer, this is my resume at Monster.com.
  • This is just a general principle. On this page is a code snippet culled from a Slashdot article on the ongoing open-source DVD controversy. I don't claim it works, but it's here.
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