My old website blew chunks, so it was time to just blow it away and start from scratch. It was written in the pre-CSS days of the internet and used PHP for almost no reason.

Work

I work as a Systems Administrator and Software Developer for a consulting company.

Travel

I like to travel. I haven't gotten to travel much thus far, but am planning to travel extensively in the coming years.

Places I've visited:

• USA and Canada in 1992.
• New Zealand in 2008.

Interests

• IRC, Bots, Developing Bots
• Programming, both Traditional (C, Perl, PHP) as well as Object Oriented (C++, C#, Java)
• Astronomy
• Astrobiology
• Space Technology
• Physics and Quantum Mechanics
• Anything UNIX (FreeBSD, Solaris, & OSX)
  

Forex

I've been interested in Foreign Exchange trading ever since Economics class in Year 11 & 12 highschool as well as University.

Yes, I actually have a real trading account. I am currently shorting the AUD.

Being a programmer my entire life, I am greatly interested in mathematical analysis of historic Forex data as well as writing my own automated (or robot) trader.

I have a database on my Solaris box that is currently many gigabytes in size containing historic tick data of numerous currency pairs. I'm working on writing some algorithms to see how effective they are at automatically trading historic data. Then I will test them on live data in a game account.

Gaming

I was always an avid PC gamer. I never got into console gaming. (My only console I ever purchased was an xbox, and even then it was to run Linux on it.)

Blizard Games

• Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness
• Warcraft 2: Beyond the Dark Portal
• Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos
• Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne)
• Diablo 1
• Diablo 2
• Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction
• Starcraft
• Starcraft: Broodwar

Other Games

• Quake 1, 2, 3
• Unreal Tournament, 2003, 2004

World of Warcraft

WoW was my first MMORPG and I quickly turned into an addict. :(

• Played Original from release until expansion came out on Illidan. Had three level 60s.
• Played The Burning Crusade until expansiom came out on Kirin Tor. Had four level 70s.
• Quit at the imminent release of Wrath of the Lich King. :D

My main was Leela (a cute adorable pink haired female gnome) and Sal (my female white haired nightelf rogue).

I still use Leela as my online persona. For example, I now hang out on nonoba (mostly to chat) and go by Leela.

(C) Leela teh gnome, 2008