User:Chiprunner
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[edit] Introduction
I have many areas of interest, but for now I will only list the ones that I am currently spending the most time with. These are: computers and information technology, the World Wide Web, Graphic Design and Illustration, and digital media (audio, video, interactive).
[edit] About my username
"Chip Runner" is the title of a short story written by Robert Silverberg. I saw the title in 1995 when I was looking through Isaac Asimov's books in the science fiction section of a bookstore near my home. I don't remember exactly where I saw the story mentioned, but from that point on I've been using the alias chiprunner online. It was eight years after I first found out about the story that I read it and found out what it was about.
"Chip Runner" can be found in Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1) (ISBN 0553370685).
[edit] Interests
The World Wide Web:
Open media / formats for the web
- SVG + SMIL + PNG + JPEG + ECMAScript + Java = open alternative to Flash; and, when combined with…
- Ogg + Vorbis + Theora | Dirac (codec) | Sun OMS + X3D + Csound = open alternative to MPEG-4
Distributed social networking using the semantic web
- Friend of a Friend
- Microformats (XHTML Friends Network, hCard, hCalendar)
- iCalendar and vCard over encrypted email
- OpenPGP web of trust
