21 August 2004
About the author
This is a short description of the author of Messages from the Ether.
Scott D. Strader, personal information:
- AOL/AIM: strader66[@aol.com]
- GMail: sstrader66@gmail.com, sstrader.home@gmail.com (primary)
- ICQ: 275967932
- sstrader@mindspring.com
- MSN: sstrader66@hotmail.com
- Yahoo: sstrader66[@yahoo.com]
- Skype: strader66
Timeline of personal events, education, work, music compositions, and software development:
Resume (PDF) - I'm a software developer currently coding applications in Swift, Java/JEE, Android, and related technologies, with a long history in Windows development.
I have written three rock operas and recorded two for piano and voice. They are available for download as streaming M3Us, MP3s, MIDIs, and scores in Finale's MUS format:
- The Journalist (2003) - This blog's title comes from the last line of The Journalist.
- The Silent Spectrum (2005)
- Ballade (2013)
I have created several Android apps and web sites from original ideas:
- ::Argot - Real-world bookmarks (Android app)
- ::ContentMetrics - Open web site rating service (Web service)
- ::EtherWiki - Help topics for my software projects
- ::Phonebot - Create Android apps from your phone (Android app)
- ::RadioWave - Streaming radio schedule aggregator (Web site)
As far back as 1995, I had posted to various Usenet newsgroups. The subjects are scattered, the intentions are random, and much of the writing is poor. Here are links to the addresses under which I had posted:
- Newsgroups postings from sstrader@ix.netcom.com - from 29 July 1995 to 1 March 1996
- Newsgroups postings from sstrader@mindspring.com - from 19 February 1997 to 9 December 2003
- ms-cryptoapi postings from scott_strader@atlanta.stercomm.com - from 3 February 1999 to 25 August 1999
Links to other external content:
- Amazon reviews
- Amazon Wish List
- Digg
- Faviki - semantically tagged social bookmarks
- Flickr
- FriendFeed
- Goodreads
- Google+
- mubi
- Photos of me at Adam Howitt's Photopia (dead?)
- StackOverflow
- TwitPic
- Wikipedia contributions
- YouTube channel
Years ago, I had joined SIGSEM (Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics) after going to the 2000 ACL conference (Association for Computational Linguistics) in Seattle. People I am not:
- The actor Scott Strader [IMDB]
- The sculptor Scott Strader, although I do have a BFA in painting
- sstrader on MySpace
- sstrader on StumbleUpon
Anything else not linked to from here is probably also not me.
- Oh, will hitman monkey ever find happiness? posted by sstrader on 27 April 2008 at 12:54:20 PM
- Chocolate! Chocolate! Chocolate! Aack! posted by sstrader on 13 April 2008 at 10:14:53 PM
- Weird mortgage ad with spider posted by sstrader on 17 March 2008 at 12:47:38 PM
- Huh? posted by sstrader on 12 July 2005 at 11:04:16 AM
- Intransigence posted by sstrader on 1 July 2005 at 8:47:32 PM