Albert O’Connor

A graduate of the University of Waterloo with a BMath in Computer Science with a Pure Math minor. I currently work at Inscriber in Uptown Waterloo. Over the last few years Inscriber has changed hands, first being bought by Leitch moving from private to public hands, and then Leitch was acquired by Harris. So really I now work for Harris.

When working I like to program with Python but I often end up doing stuff with C++ and C#.

On the side my most expensive hobby is DJing. I am very happy mixing with Serato and my Rane TTM 56 Mixer and a set of 1200s. Over the years I have spun top 40, house, hip hop, and alternative.

When I was at school tended to keep busy doing things like running a club for people interested in DJing, sometimes helping out with MathSoc, occasionally writing for mathNEWS, and even being a Senator for no adequately explained reason.

Websites

A bunch of websites I have made in reverse chronological order. Some are still updated, some aren't.

• Wiki 2.0 - powered by MoinMoin the best Python based wiki, keeps track of revision and uses the filesystem for storage.
• Weblog 2.0 - powered by wordpress... not writeen by me, slightly better than b2evolution.
• Weblog - powered by b2evolutions... not written by me. Now disabled, mostly do to spam.
• A Wiki - Specifically a pikipiki, ie a wikiwiki written in Python.
• A Weblog - Log of thoughts, not links. The underlying system is written in Python.
• Senate Race - I am running for Senate of the University of Waterloo.
• UWDJ Club - A club I started.
• The Roth Project - A story. It is just beginning.
• Albertism - An exciting new religion.
• Electr0nica - information on a sequence of events that I am organizing.
• 5 minutes of freewriting - I type for five minutes, this is the result.
• Sluggy Freelance - like to have Java program download of a year comics for you?
• Phat Sound System - a page to build upon when I have more time to do audio programming.
• Phat World - the less serious DJing side of my pages.
• Digital Portfolio - what to know about what I have done in the past.

Projects

I often end up working of various projects.

• The Math Hand Book - I hope to help the Math Handbook go from useless to very useful. Feel free to help.
• Fun with CSS - Some examples of cool things you can do, and still use it properly.
• uwstudent.org with out any tables.

Interests

Things I do to kill time.

• DJing - My most expensive and longest lasting hobby.
• Kung-fu - The most pervasive activity. Something I should do more of.
• Debian - I like playing with computers. I should probably play with OS/2 as well.
• Curling - The token sport I like to play and watch.
• Bodhran - The Irish drum. I decide I should learn a rhythm instrument.

Reading

Though I am not terribly well read, I do read some webpages.

Things I am reading now

• CSS2 Specification - I am trying to understand the power of CSS. I was inspired by this story about redoing slashdot and a HTML weenie.

Things I read regularly

• slashdot.org - No I don't read the comments.
• CBC's website - Canadian news.
• uwstudent.org - That's right I am one of those people.

Things I have read

• Sluggy Freelance - A nifty comic.

Useful

Good stuff. Things I have found useful during my travels.

• PuTTY - A free Win32 Telnet/SSH client.
• Firefox - As the mozilla moves from bloat to a bunch of distinct apps, their brower technology preview Firefox leads the way. Hopefully this is the name they keep.
• VirtuaWin 2.5 - Everyone need multiple desktops, even windows users.
• Tiny Apps - Some of the smallest and most useful programs. Including good image viewer and text editors.
• Winamp - I still use winamp to listen to music when I am in win32, I even use it to help me DJ.
• Gaim - A pretty good multi IM system client. I especially like the debian install that includes a while you write spell checker.

Quality Enterainment

Stuff that is most enteraining

• Undergrads
• Clone High
• Samuri Jack

Other

Whatever doesn't fit into my other headings.

• What is with the colour settings?
• My schedule.