This is Ed's Lame Home Page(tm). Not much exciting going on here, really. Watch this space, though -- something really cool will hit here sooner or later...like honeymoon pictures .
This is an abbreviated and annotated version of my hotlist. I was using it strictly to avoid bookmarks, but I guess it gives some information about me.
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Honeymoon pictures are here. Wedding photos are coming really soon now. No, really.
Goofy personal web site self-portrait, taken by a co-worker one morning.
You can see two pictures of my dog Brownie here and here.. He's a 7-year old chow-chow/German shepherd mix who Frances and I adopted in September, 1997.
The name came from when my brother James and I were feeling country-hickish. During such fits, I'd usually call him "Jimbob." In response, he'd either call me "Edbob" or "Edwick," the latter being a regional variation on "Cheswick." I think. He claims not to remember.
Anyway, my freshman year at Yale University, our usernames on the VMS mainframe were determined by the first three letters of your last name, first three letters of your first name, and middle initial. For me, this yielded "LIUEDWC." Edwick.
By the end of sophomore year, I had decided on a course of Computer Science and needed to get a permanent UNIX account as a major. The convention was to use your last name, but there was already another major using "liu." Instead of doing something boring like "liue," I asked the guy handling accounts if I could have "edwick." He sort of shrugged, but I got the account. Since then, whenever I've had a choice, I've always used "edwick" as my account name.
Aren't you glad you asked?
I don't believe much in imagemaps, frames, animated GIF files, music in the background, or any browser-specific HTML code. To me, all of them are nice flashy ways to waste CPU cycles, increase the downloading time of pages, and crash browsers. JavaScript tends to be annoying. Java is pretty nifty but is used too often for completely idiotic purposes.
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Edward C. Liu
edwick@macconnect.com