For ten years I made a living as a web developer for the University of California, San Francisco. I was emphatically a developer, not a designer. I know little about graphics and don't care much about fonts or color choices. I concentrate on the backend, making sure the site works, links don't break, and the code is valid HTML. I dislike graphic-intensive pages, preferring simple, uncluttered, functional sites like Google.

Besides HTML, my computing skills currently include PHP, Perl, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux and Mac OS X system administration, Drupal content management, and video and audio editing with Final Cut Studio.

I used the Mac OS as my primary operating system from 1992 to 2010. I then migrated to Ubuntu Linux for nearly everything except multimedia work and Quicken for a couple of years, before returning to the Mac OS.

Software I rely on includes BBEdit for text editing (including HTML), Thunderbird for e-mail, Firefox for web browsing, and Quicken for financial management (the only program I currently run on Windows). On the creative front, I use Adobe Lightroom for photo processing, Final Cut Studio for video and audio editing, and Sibelius for music transcription and composition.

I have profiles on many social networking sites, linked from my Google Profile.

I enjoy computer gaming. My favorite game ever is NetHack, a highly addictive single-player dungeon adventure that is also open-source. I began playing on a public server in January 2007 and my stats are available there. I have also spent many hours playing SimCity and The Sims (all three major versions and most of the expansions).

My final move in my winning vegetarian weaponless Monk Nethack game.