Dammit Jim!

I was skimming Simon Willison’s blog (I know his uncle) when I came across this cool idea for automatic avatar generation. Well to tell the truth, I took one look at the title “Visual Security: 9-block IP Identification” and deleted the link from my RSS reader but the next day a link based on that idea came up for generating a unique monster avatar for each user that did catch my interest. After all if it’s got monsters, it has got to be interesting.

It seems the first post is especially difficult. I hope things get easier with time.

After putting it off for years, I finally got a homepage. Strangely there wasn’t a whole lot of competition for the sherrillmix domain name. Just wait until one of the three of us becomes famous. I’ll be rolling in the cash then. Anyway, I figure I better put something on here or it’s going to look pretty empty so I’m going to give this blogging thing a shot.

I got my degree in biology but am currently doing a lot of programming. Since I make quite a few mistakes, I figure I’ll try saving some of the stupid mistakes I make in programming for the few people less computer inclined than me to learn from and the large majority to laugh and point at. And if nobody ever reads this, it’ll still be handy for me when I forget in a few months and do the same stupid things again.

Also the girlfriend, Xiaofen, is always trying to cook new fancy things so I thought it might be fun for her to try to show off some of her recipes. We’ll see if that turns out but if she enjoys it then there could be some good Chinese recipes on here.

Not much of a mission statement but I guess it’ll grow or die out naturally.