(identity 'myron)

me

My name is Myron Wu. I'm 23, a recent graduate from the University of Victoria in Computer Science. My main technical interests are functional programming and web programming with a little web design on the side. Here's my resume if you want it.

My weapon of choice for programming is Scheme or possibly Common Lisp, though I get paid for coding mostly in Java nowadays. I currently work in Victoria for AbeBooks.

My favourite book is José Saramago's Blindness (see this entry and also this one for a few reasons why). If I had to name a favourite movie it'd probably be Truman Show, because of how prophetic it's turned out to be.

Anyway, at three paragraphs, the shyness sets in and I have no more to say about myself. In case you're wondering, the title of this site, "(identity 'myron)", is a play on words for something runnable as Lisp code. Cheesy, but it works.

If you want to contact me, you can do so through email, msn messenger (mwufury@hotmail.com) or icq.

Here's a screenshot of my desktop in action (June 25, 2005).

the design

The design used on this site uses elements of layout I learned from csszengarden and a list apart. Inspiration for the choice of graphics came from my friend Chipa (Mike Kosiba). The photo up top is a photo I took at a famous rock garden in Kyoto, Japan when I was there for an 8-month long internship.

Graphics manipulation was done in Gimp on Mac OS X. Most of the list and header ornaments are characters picked out from certain fonts and then made into images.

The basic html template and all the css code used was hand-coded using vim and emacs.

I make no guarantees that the layout looks proper in Internet Explorer. ;)