Résumé Destination Du Jour

White Plains, New York.

Redesign Time

I think it is about time to split my fine art and photography off my personal site and have a dedicated portfolio site. I've currently got http://www.mbarrick.com as my résumé site for my programming and http://www.mbarrick.net set up as my catch-all personal site with http://atratus.araneum.ca redirecting to MBarrick.net. I'm thinking that I'll redesign MBarrick.com and MBarrick.net along the lines of this experiment - very clean an minimal but still "showing off" in a technical way. The experiment page is actually all text and totally dynamic. The design adapts itself to the size of the window and the whole thing is light-weight and degrades gracefully for WAP access. It's just an experiment, so there is nothing in the scripting to deal with older and marginal browsers yet, but it does work in MSIE 5+, Netscape 7+, Firefox 0.9+ and any WAP or text-only browser which covers about 98% of what's out there with no degredation of the design. Those other 2% can still see and read, it's just not as pretty for them. I'll use http://atratus.araneum.ca for the purely personal stuff like this blog, trip photos, and that sort of thing.

Gamer?

Great Gamer GM says drop 2d10, aanndd... you roll 57% !

Not too bad- not too bad at all. You're not exactly a first generation gamer, and you probably have other hobbies besides rolling dice and slaughtering orcs, but you've managed to collect enough knowledge to impress even the most experienced gamer. Pull out a few more nights for gaming and spend some more time with the obscure books, soon you're well on your way to becomming the Ultimate Gamer.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on dice

Link: The Real Gamers use Dice Test written by luminasita on Ok Cupid

(No bad, I guess, for someone that hasn't done any gaming since 1985. Although I wouldn't say that I'm "not exacty a first generation gamer" - I used to play Chainmail, it doesn't get more "first generation" than that. It's just that I stopped playing 20 years ago so I really don't know squat about LARPs or anything else that came out after AD&D.)