I've been working with HTML since my first GeoCities site in 1993. At the time, I was living in Cyprus, and my friend Nathan Moussa was using CompuServe to access the brand-spankin' new World Wide Web. Immediately I thought this was the coolest thing ever.

Sure, those early days were fairly crude. We tossed blink tags around with wanton abandon. But hey, we weren't even teenagers yet. We didn't know any better. Oddly enough, when I moved back to the U.S. and settled down in the Atlanta metro area, I stopped using the internet for a while. It wasn't really a part of the high school experience and I didn't have access at home apart from an AOL trial here or there. I still worked with computers though.

I don't remember where I got my first Launch Interactive CD but the disc itself made a lasting impression. It was a Shockwave application that ran off the disc. Everything was laid out in a virtual city. There was a theater you could watch movie previews and director interviews; a loft which had a jukebox and video interviews with musicians; even the ads were cool interactive games. I decided this is what I wanted to do.

In 1996, when I went to college at the University of Georgia in Athens, they didn't have any program in interactive design so I made up my own. I took classes in computer programming but my major was publication management. Around this time, I began to focus more of my time on music. I dropped out of school for a sabbatical of sorts.

It's only been recently that I've worked with HTML in depth again. Of course now there are other acronyms like CSS, AJAX and XML to deal with. I am familiar with issues of accessibility and strongly advocate semantic design.  I have worked with WordPress but have decided to focus my energy developing with Drupal as I find it is more flexible. I am particularly interested in using AJAX to improve usability in Drupal. A couple of Drupal-powered sites that I admire are Terminus1325 and Project Opus. Expect wavetheory.org to move in that direction.