OTHER STUFF:

Here you can find out about me and download miscellaneous files offered throughout the web site as well as Winamp 2.x skins and Quake v1 levels I made. I doubt anyone still uses Winamp v2 or plays the original Quake but here are files I made for those programs just in case.

Some of the great programs I've tried/used: Paint Shop Pro & Animation Shop, Kai's Power Tools plug-in, Eye Candy plug-in, Ulead SmartSaver, Zone Labs ZoneAlarm, Symantec Antivirus, Bryce, Cool 3D, WinAmp, Cubik Player, Rebirth, Pixel 3D, MS Works, WinZip, WS_FTP, Myst, realMyst, Riven, Exile, Uru, X-wing, Hammer of the Gods, Heroes of Might & Magic II/III/IV, Quake, Warcraft II, Starcraft, Unreal Tournament (all versions), InfoRapid Search & Replace, EmEditor, and Notepad.

About me: I'm 35 years old and from Othello, Washington. When I was about 12 years old I began working with an Apple IIE and playing around in BASIC. I later received an Apple IIGS, spent one week learning 65C816 assembly language (yes; took only a week), and then made a few programs, games, and demos for the GS; some of which can still be found on the net (that surprised me)! I did everything for those programs, including sampling instruments & sounds, writing the music (Soundsmith), drawing the graphics (Platinum Paint), and (of course) writing the code (including rudimentary operating systems- screw the tools!). Now I use computers mostly for photography support and personal finance but I do still occasionally dabble in graphics, web development, and anything else that interests me.

I earn my money by administering Windows domains in sizes from as small as 600 to as large as 2000+ users. Yes, I do troubleshooting for software and hardware on individual workstations as well. I also write complex Kix scripts and batch files for logon functions and as a solution to all sorts of strange problems I encounter. Some examples are: pushing mandatory security, file, and configuration information, gathering workstation stats into an easy to read and consolidated format, generating random passwords and setting user account information for shared user accounts, gathering and sorting user home directory (including subdirectories) sizes, and so on. Kix is much more than a logon script processor! For digital photography, I use it to rename my image files with the year and month at the beginning followed by a four digit sequence number. I have also written small scripts to rename other types of files so they follow a standard (like MP3s, for example). One thing I'd like to do is get into writing music and assembly coding PCs but, now that I actually have to work for a living, I can't spend days on end experimenting and learning like I used to during my summers as a kid! Besides, I've taken a serious interest in nature photography over the last few years and would usually rather be outside taking pictures than indoors working on a computer (especially since I do that all day at work). I've lived all over the US; in Okinawa, Japan; Panama City, Panama; Terceira in the Portuguese Azores; Germany; and currently live in Virginia. I speak Spanish and English but would love to learn Russian or Chinese someday.