Interests

Life's not all about programming, right?

Cooking

Alton Brown's show Good Eats has become one my favorite shows.

Besides the recipes on his show there are a few I've managed to prepare fairly well:

• Chicken Tikka Masala
• Thai Tuna Burgers
• World's Best Lasagna
• Wild Salmon (veg oil, salt, and pepper in a hot pan. simple, just don't over cook it!)

and who doesn't love dessert?

• Banana Pudding (even better with homemade wafers)
• Pumpkin Cheesecake

Cycling

We live near the New York State Canalway Trail System. The trail is 260 miles of almost fully connected paths between Buffalo and Albany. It will continue to be expanded over the next few years to comprise over 500 miles of recreational path. Which raises the question, why all this effort for a region that gets two months of summer? Well, at least those two months will be more enjoyable.

Personal Projects

Ok, sometimes, programming sneaks into my hobbies.

• CD-Tag, a program for ripping, encoding, and tagging music written in C++.
• ilSFV, a checksum file creator/validator written in C#.
• IdSharp, an open source .NET library for reading and writing audio file metadata.