Collection
- 101 ways to burn water
Longer stories
- Alien Games
- Fred and Friends and the Summer of Fire
Short stories
- Working in High Tech
- p.s. I Luv U
- Fred Penner's Evil Twin
  - The rest of the story
- Two Extra Washrooms
Articles
- A game called Mao
- Emacs cheat sheet
Recipes
- Pancakes
Poems
- Dancing with the Moon
- The Festies' Lament
- Format
- My Canada
- Wilting
- The neverwalkie
- Seeing by Sonlight
Personal info
- Robert
- Charlotte pics
- Kids pics 2005
- New Year pics 2006
- Annotated links

Some People's Parents
outrageously possible stories, and other writings

What's New

2006/5/3 - pictures of New Year's 2006

2006/5/3 - pictures of Kids 2005

2005/1/15 - pictures of Charlotte at 18 weeks.

2004/3/25 - added warnings about lye to Making lye soap

2004/3/23 - updated the links page primarily to add the link to the web site for my new company.

2004/1/4 - Seeing by Sonlight - A poem I wrote in 2000.

2003/9/8 - The neverwalkie - With apologies to Lewis Carrol

2003/5/31 - You must be June - A new chapter in Alien Games. There's something odd about the computer. June arrives.

Change history

Welcome

I had a job at Symbium for 11 months in 2005 until they laid off half of the company. My work interests have changed to reflect the work I did at Symbium and Stilo - I am now more interested in doing integration programming and Software Configuration Management than network administration. In fact, I now work at Espial as build prime. I do a lot of integration work putting together a better build system for them, as well as other tools - mainly web based. As has become usual for me, I am using and proselytizing wikis within the company.

This site is a place for me to show off my stories, poems and other stuff. It serves as an incentive to me to write something frequently, errr, once in a while. Comments and suggestions are appreciated, so I have made them easy to make.

Some of you may be interested in the automated system I use to create HTML pages in the "Fred" and "Burn Water" sections. I am able to type up my stories in plain text, with blank lines between paragraphs, and other consistent formatting. My program parses these stories and stuffs them into templates, with extra information found in a couple of configuration files.

Tool Update!
I am trying out a free graphical web site editing tool called Nvu. You might like it. For graphics, I use PhotoImpact 7.

Thanks for stopping by!

Sincerely,

Robert

p.s. If you want to link to my site, you could use this picture.