Here you will find a listing of what is currently whetting my whistle, as well as pointers to finished projects of interest (mostly of the online variety).

Stable:

These are the things which are still subject to change, but probably aren't going to wiggle out from under you while you're looking at them. Screw the "under construction" aesthetic.

• Graduate School
  • I entered the PhD program in computer science here at Carnegie Mellon in the fall of 1995. I hope to be out of here within 4-6 years of then :).
• Odyssey
  • I'm currently working on a bandwidth aware web-proxy; and,
  • in general, I'm interested in the topic of function shipping as a method for adapting to mobility.
  • (See my research page for more information.)
• Composing Good HTML
  • This style guide is all about how to create HTML which is portable across many server platforms. It's pretty stable right now, but it changes ocassionally to reflect changes in my thinking and constructive criticism I receive from you, the home reader :). A stable release appeared in print form of December of 1995, in the form of a book from Addison-Wesley called Web Weaving (see the Finished section below for more details).
• A hypertext rantscription of the counterculture classic, The Principia Discordia
  • Hail Eris. Fnord. Slack. "Bob." Oh, just go read the damn thing and wallow in your techno-geekiness. I know I did.
• Euphonia Rex
  • When I was eleven, I made a raspberry through a tube of metal. I've never looked back.
• The Swedish FishCam
  • 'nuff said.
• Webmastering for the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • I'm the student member of the current web troika, and help out with content creation and maintenance. Don't send e-mail to me about SCS web problems, though -- send it to wwwsrv@cs.cmu.edu. (You'll probably get a response more quickly this way.)

Finished:

These are the things that I've pretty much wrapped up and shipped. Enjoy 'em while they're hot!

Publications:

• Web Weaving
  • In January of 1995, Carl Steadman, Tyler Jones, and I got together with the idea of writing a book all about how to create and maintain large and scalable web sites. In December of 1995, Web Weaving hit shelves. It's published by Addison-Wesley, and is available at fine bookstores everywhere.
• Every Student's Guide to the Internet
  • I co-authored this with four other folks from Willamette University in 1995. It's a textbook on how to use popular Internet tools, and is published by McGraw-Hill. There are Unix, Mac, and Windows editions of the book.

Programming:

• Prospero
  • Prospero is a microkernel (really! despite the amount of sweat I poured into it, it's only about 4K of executable code for the kernel proper) for building Object-Oriented Operating Systems. It was my senior project for my CS major at Willamette. It consists of a fair piece of ix86 assembly code providing object creating and messaging services, as well as a rudimentary set of OS services (Caliban). If you're interested in source or other information, feel free to send me e-mail.
• FOCUS
  • This "FOrm-based Customizable User Shell" was something I wrote in the summer of 1993, while I was cutting my teeth on the curses library and on Unix hacking in general. I didn't know about Lynx or Mosaic at the time, and ended up building a terminal-based HyperCard-esque tool for Unix. It's kinda cute, and should be fairly portable. Feel free.

Online projects:

• Oregon Online
  • In the spring and summer of 1995, I did some work for the Oregon State Library for the Oregon Online gopher. I ported and re-wrote the scripts which maintain the database of information, including bits which track who's maintaining what data on the server, and automatically cleaning out stale information (after alerting the maintainers that the data is about to expire). It was a fun project, and gave me further ideas about how better to automate the cleaning of an infostructure.

Squirrely:

This is stuff in various stages of development, from just a thought to a detailed mockup. Remember, you get what you pay for.

• PinealWeb
  • Why optimize for Netscape or Internet Explorer? PinealWeb dumps global knowledge right into your third eye! (This is handy for developing distributed systems.)
• The Metanoia archive
  • This is an archive of documents related to Metanoia, the consciouness-raising and consensus-reaching dorm of fun from my undergraduate days. If you're interested in background information on consensus-style government, this might be of interest. Or if you just want to read (for fun) the constitution and mission statement I helped write.