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Hi! I started building this web site
in December, 2003, and I'm still learning how to create graphic images. So the
appearance of these pages will likely change quite a bit from time to
time as I get things set the way I want them. For instance, I've been
studying up on "rollovers" in HTML (see the buttons at left and
right) so I can eventually build a compact navigation bar
for the site. I've also been studying JavaScript and frame navigation
-- my first demo of that feature is ready to go. I'm still working
on the HTML 4.01 standards And I've started cutting all these pages
over to CSS because I'm up to speed on that.
Generally speaking, I'm interested in computer programming, mathematics, economics (Austrian School), and political philosophy (libertarian, if I had my druthers). I have about 20 years of experience working as an actuary in the life insurance industry. I spent many of those years programming computers, mainly in IBM assembly language (although I also have extensive experience with FORTRAN, COBOL, and BASIC). I recently installed LINUX on a couple of my PC's, and I'm learning how to talk to that OS (actually, to BASH, the Bourne Again Shell) as time permits. I recently installed SuSE Linux 9.3, and I've picked up a copy of the Thunderbird e-mail client. I've also been getting some practice coding simple C programs. C seems to fall somewhere in between FORTRAN and assembler -- it's a higher level language, but it allows direct access (via pointers and data type declarations) to some fairly low level machine features, like addresses, and using characters as numbers, or numbers as characters, etc. I have done my best to make these pages look good for Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, release levels 4 and later, for the new Firefox browser, and for the Opera 7.0 browser, at screen resolutions from 800 x 600 up to 1280 x 960. I'm also working to get the font sizes set right in both the Windows and Linux operating system environments. If these pages don't look good in your browser, please let me know about it, and I'll try to make them even more browser-friendly. If you stumble across this page and you'd like to drop me a line, please feel free to send me an e-mail message. Or hit the "Sign Guest Book" button above, at top right, and sign my guest book. Thanks for stopping by! D. Bryant |
 
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