Chiprunner

Introduction

"Chip Runner" can be found in Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1) (ISBN 0553370685).

Interests

Information technology

• Programming
• Open systems: open-source software, open standards, open-formats
• The Web:
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Progressive Enhancement
  • Unobtrusive JavaScript
• Open media formats for the web:
  • Using HTML 5 with SVG + SMIL + PNG + JPEG + ECMAScript as a free alternative to Flash
  • Using the above with an open video format and X3D + Csound as a free alternative to MPEG-4 (with mixed media) and other proprietary video distribution formats.
• 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
• Generative systems, Algorithmic art, Live coding, Procedural generation and other types of Software art.
• Emerging technologies
  • Virtual retinal display
  • Diffusion curve

Art

• Graphic design and illustration

Science Fiction

Science fiction

Outdoors

• Photography
• Mountain biking