Hello.
I'm Mike.

Most of you probably stumbled in here via Behind the Name, curious who's behind the project. Here's the really brief bio: I currently live in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. I was born in 1975 in Tofino, a tiny town (population c.1000) on the west coast of Vancouver Island, and the first 18 years of my life were spent there. I moved to Victoria to begin my studies at the University of Victoria. Computer Science became my major and I graduated in 1998. Currently I am working for a small software company called AKTIV Software. In the summer of 2005 I was married to a lovely woman named Tara.

Besides the obvious interest in programming and computers, I am also interested in linguistics and human languages, onomastics, history, mythology, and philosophy (esp epistemology, theology, and logic). Other hobbies include doing puzzles, drawing, writing, playing hockey, and listening to trippy music.

My linguistics/history project on the web is
Behind the Name.
It is a look at the etymology and history behind first names.

I have also begun work on
Behind the Surname
which focuses on last names.

I have also begun work on
Behind the Surname
which focuses on last names.

My experiments with the Java programming language led to
Netris
which is not the most original name, as it turns out. Anyways, it is a version of Tetris that can be played online.

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