AboutI've been in the water and ocean for a pretty fair portion of my life, and despite it all, don't surf, although I do enjoy swimming and water polo. What started as my mom distracting me with legos has become a full-blown habit of building things. More on this can be found in the Projects section.
There are around 330 days left until I graduate, and 270 until my next birthday. I'm just over 6000 days old.
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None of the other sections are really up yet, but feel free to look around.
So this is my nth revision and new personal website (or me-festival.. hah). I'm not sure what motivated me, but I found myself again spending endless time soaking the delicious wireless internet radiation from the couch, enjoying the summer from indoors, and designing a new website. Partly it was fueled by my discovery of Ajax, Ruby on Rails, and my embrace of RSS. Amusingly, other than the RSS I got sidetracked (in part due to the seeming impossibility of properly installing Ruby on Rails without having previous experience installing Ruby on Rails. Circular, I know.) Instead, I learned JSTL and JSP (almost by accident), and I think I'm going to rely on it plus some older technology I already know to build the other parts of the site. These, some ideas I've had about ways to make my life easier (always a plus), which are invaluable at school, and some free time, resulted in the excellent martini you find here.
Most of what you'll find is the typical "Hi this is my site" stuff, including this page. What's new is mostly the content you'll find. In the About section, Reading and Links are new. Reading is (you guessed it) what I'm currently reading or have read, inspired by megnut. Links are sites that I find interesting, more like my own personal del.icio.us (useful for when you and your bookmarks are removed from one another).
The Projects section is fairly straightforward (if the projects aren't.. :P). The Productivity section is designed for my own benefit, and features two fairly powerful engines. One is that once I can develop some sort of syncing mechanism, all my iCal calendars (without whom I would forget way too many meetings) will be online, so that I can refer to them always, and from anywhere. The other is what I hope to implement when I get Ruby on Rails working, where I can sketch out a quick daily to-do list, a shopping list, whatever, and then add items or refer to the list via a web-interface. Again, the ability to access these from anywhere is the main driving factor.
And.. the blog. I am notoriously bad at the blogging thing, which I don't mind at all. Whereas most of the world finds them useful as a sort of personal news service or syndicated editorial column, I found their use as more a place to record my own life (boring as it can be to read about), but for my own memory. To this end, the majority of posts in my only successful (i.e., didn't get sick of and stop updating after 2 weeks) blog have been unseen to the public eye. With this revision, however, I hope to both retain that aspect of what blogging represents to me, as well as start my own (sigh.. yes) place to write something a little more opinionated, something I have previously shied from. I'm not sure, currently, how I will implement this, but I also want to experiment with RSS. If you are seeing this page and have ideas, feel free to let me know.