Thanks to the COM352 students for contributing a bunch of new pages! I'll be moving these pages into the main area of the wiki soon.

From UMassWiki

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Me in 2004. Still fairly accurate. Beard is gone larger though.

I am a Computer Science alumnus of UMass Amherst. I founded UMassWiki. I graduated in Spring 2007 after spending my last semester at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, where I now live.

You can learn more about me at these sites:

• Facebook: http://umass.facebook.com/profile.php?id=9120523

Contact

Please contact me directly at or on Facebook or my talk page in the event of ongoing wikispam.

Music

You can find out what I'm listening to lately on last.fm.

Last.fm is a cool site where you download a plugin for your music player -- iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, whatever -- and it reports your listening habits back, automatically generating charts for you. That itself is not so cool. What's cooler is that it can recommend you new music based on your taste and create personalized radio stations for you. You can also join groups which have their own charts, and you can tag songs, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

I cannot overstate this enough. Last.fm has revolutionized my musical life. If I'm listening to random stuff in iTunes and a song I like but don't know much about comes up, I click on the Last.fm thingy, which tells me a bit about the band, then links to the web site. The web site tells me the other most popular songs by the band, and oh yeah, here are a few similar artists. Click on a song preview or another artist and if I like what I see/hear, I've just discovered something new that I never would have heard of otherwise.

Hobbies

Cardagh Lheiyslaue, one of my 10 alter egos

My hobbies include running an old-school text based BBS, playing Dark Age of Camelot, and general participation in online communities such as umass_amherst which was the inspiration for UMassWiki.

I'm currently looking for new hobbies that involve physical motion of my body out of the computer chair.  :P I've started going to the gym as of January 2007 to do cardio workouts and swimming.

Fungame

I've been nursing an on-again, off-again obsession with Dark Age of Camelot since about two months after its 2001 release. Lately I've been playing again, and if you're into roleplaying or MMORPGs at all, you might want to read about my 10 (!) characters, including a little history behind them and pictures of all 10: clicky