Slarti's Gweep projects

As a Gweep, I am naturally given to fairly long stretches of time in front of a computer screen, doing one thing or another. I am much more of a system administrator than any stripe of hard-core programmer, so less of my online time is spent trying to get some code to work rather than chatting with friends and colleagues or keeping machines running. As someone who makes a hobby of documentation systems, I also spend time studying things like Web technologies and typesetting systems.

From time to time, I even produce something relatively tangible and worthwhile from my efforts. It's not often, but it happens. When it does, I'll make it available from here.

• Tengwar research: creation of a new linguistic mode for Tolkien's Tengwar writing system (work still in progress
• Mockups of the insignia of the International Police Organization Space Force: a relatively quick work in translating description into graphical form
• The computer game "Deus Ex" had computers that you could hack to read other characters' e-mail for a limited time. There was one e-mail that was in French, and you couldn't really translate it on the fly in the time allowed. So I went through the trouble of transcribing it, so that I could feed it to Google's translator.
• libm4a: a module for playing m4a sound files on XMMS.
• LJlogin: a Firefox extension that tells you which LiveJournal account you're logged in with, and lets you switch between accounts saved in the Password Manager