Here is everything that I’ve done over the past few years.

Apparatus Complex

History

The very first iteration of this website was a project page on Geocities. Then I moved it to a group blog format on Tripod, and then to Blogger.com way before it was owned by Google. In an effort to bring more people into the site, I turned it into a public forum around mid 2003. Between 2003 and 2005 we had around 140 registered people on the site.

Then the site was dormant from 2005 to 2008, while I was busy with school and went through a period of being sick of administrating websites. Basically the site was drawing in a crowd of people that I didn’t like, and they were maneuvering the site in a social direction that I didn’t desire.

An interesting way to look back on the history is to look at it using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. It’s a little scary to see what life was like for me 5-6 years ago.

Now

This year, I decided to bring the site back. The first reason is that I’m older now, and so are the original members of the site so we could provide more interesting conversations. The second reason is that I honestly didn’t want to waste a domain name that I was paying for. It would break my heart to see this domain be turned into a useless link farm.

So this time I’m going with a discussion-forum in a blog like format. People really liked the openness of the forums, but they also enjoyed the intimacy of the blog format. So I decided to go with both. I’m still working out an algorithm to determine which posts are front-page worthy but for now this will suffice until it gets unwieldy.

I do plan on attaching a persistent-browser game to this site to provide people with other things to do instead of just chatting to each other. I know that the site design is a little rough right now. But I’ll polish it out as I add features. Visit Site

• Uses JQuery for front-end
• Back-end using Php and MySQL
• Automatic tag generation using results from Yahoo’s Term Extractor API, and OpenCalais

Zero Mercy

A webcomic I created some not too long ago to improve upon my drawing skills and to tell a story. It’s on hiatus right now because myself and my writer have moved to an issue (20-page) format while we restructure the story. Visit Site

• Powered by Wordpress using a custom template.
• Created a comic plugin script that handles uploading and displaying of pages with automatic thumbnail generation.