Interests

I have a wide variety of interests including music, books (mostly non-fiction), video games, movies, and development.

Music

an example of Last Listened

I listen to a wide variety of music and, with very few exceptions, I like at least something in nearly every genre. Some of my favorite groups and musicians include: Depeche Mode, Megadeth, Placebo, Shiny Toy Guns, Nine Inch Nails, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, t.A.T.u., Fleetwood Mac, Hollywood Undead, and too many others to list.

I ran a music review site for a number of years, but it hasn't been active for several years. It seems with updates to site's host, there are now a number of technical issues with the site. I am in the slow process of fixing them and will post a link to it once they are all resolved.

For the most part, I listen on services that "scrobble" to Last.fm, so you can see what I've been listening to recently there. For the last couple of tracks, you can check the image to the left. This image is refreshed every 5 minutes and is created by "Last Listened", a free, open source program I created that can be downloaded on the software page.

Dev Tools

VIM

VIM (VI Improved) is a powerful FOSS (Free, Open-Source Software) text editor with numerous plugins that can be ran from a shell (how I use it) or with a modern GUI. I've been using VIM since 1993 or 1994 and have it setup in a way that's more conducive for me for Python, Perl, HTML, CSS, and JS than most other editors come out-of-the-box and, at this stage, I don't feel like spending time customizing something else. I have a tutorial video on how to perform a few intermediate tasks on YouTube.