Idle Dreams

Over ten years of ANSI and ASCII artwork. ANSI art is a computer artform that was widely used at one time on BBSes. It is similar to ASCII art, but constructed from a larger set of 256 letters, numbers, and symbols — all codes found in IBM code page 437, often referred to as extended ASCII and used in MS-DOS environments. ANSI art also contains special ANSI escape codes that color text with the 16 foreground and 8 background colours offered by ANSI.SYS, an MS-DOS device driver loosely based upon the ANSI X3.64 standard for text terminals. Some ANSI artists take advantage of the cursor control sequences within ANSI X3.64 in order to create animations, commonly referred to as ANSImations. ANSI art and text files which incorporate ANSI codes carry the de facto .ANS file extension.

A website for a Front Office Football 2007 (FOF) league. FOF is designed to represent a snapshot of professional football as it exists under the current salary cap system. You play the role of the general manager of a team. In order to succeed in FOF, you need to perform as well as possible in four different areas. I am responsible for all things web for the site, but I do not play the game.

The bets, botches and ramblings of Doug, Tomi and Wade.

Flickr is a photo sharing website and web services suite, and an online community platform, which is generally considered an early example of a Web 2.0 application.

In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its innovative online community tools that allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means.

Last.fm is an Internet radio station and music recommendation system that merged with sister site Audioscrobbler in August 2005. The system builds a detailed profile of each user's musical taste, showing their favourite artists and songs on a customizable profile webpage, comprising the songs played on its stations selected via a collaborative filter, or optionally, recorded by a Last.fm plugin installed into its users' music playing application.

I collected comics for a couple of years during the early 1990s. Recently I began collecting again, much to the dismay of any thought that I am not a huge geek. comicbookdb.com has proved to be a fantastic site for cataloging my collection and helping to determine what issues I am missing.

I had to break down and do it at some point. I have a myspace account, but I don't actually do much of anything with it. I check it every few months to see if someone has requested to be my friend or written me a message, but that's about the extent of my myspace usage.