Portfolio for Simon Rumble
Some of the projects in which I've been involved. There aren't too many recent ones because most of my recent work has been commercial-in-confidence.
The Truth About Weapons of Mass Destruction
Site for a film by my mate Hanesy. I designed and built it, incorporating a blogging system so Hanesy can add updates himself as the film tours the festival circuit.
Spam Article for Moscow Times
An article for the IT and Telecoms Special of the Moscow Times, April 2003. I covered the problem of spam and methods being employed to filter it out, including Bayesian filter techniques.
BBC Radio Three Making Tracks
I wrote the Perl back-end to run on Linux for this Macromedia Shockwave game. The game involves creating a musical piece and the back-end allows users to save and email their creations to friends.
This project was a sub-contract from a friend who works regularly on BBC projects. The back-end takes a text file HTTP POSTed by the Shockwave application and saves it to disk before emailing a link. I can't take credit for the groovy graphics.
Webmaster Pocketbook
Australian Consolidated Press publish a series of short books covering various technical areas. The Pocketbooks have been wildly successful.
I wrote and edited this book with my friend, Stuart Ridley. I worked on the technical tutorials and editing of the whole book. The book has now sold out.
I also worked on chapters of the Linux and Advanced Linux Pocketbooks. Specifically, X-Windows and and Free Software philosophy for the Linux Pocketbook and the Debian section of the Advanced Linux Pocketbook.
Sydney Indymedia
The Indymedia project began with software originally developed by a group of Sydney geeks to cover J18 in 1999. The concept was simply to open media to the people making the news.
This community publishing came into its own during Sydney's 2000 Olympic Games. Sydney Indymedia was there probing the dark underbelly, highlighting those who were pushed out for the global corporate carnival.
I worked on content, design, training, building hardware, coordination and publicity.
World Environment Day 2000: An Alternative View
World Environment Day 2000 was hosted in Australia. The Department of Environment put up a big, glossy site with a beautiful sea turtle and all sorts of information about the environment. World Environment Day was used a cheap publicity stunt for the government to pat itself on the back for its (non-existent) environment programmes. This site was designed to set the record straight. The site even got mentioned in parliament!
I designed the entire site, closely copying the style of the Government's PR fluff site. Content was gathered by a small team and I hammered it into HTML.
Designed using HTML, Photoshop and late nights.
Massive
For nearly two years I edited and designed the monthly paper newsletter of Critical Mass, a politically charged bike ride through the streets of Sydney once a month.
Designed and published using Pagemaker and late nights at the company photocopier.
Active
Active Sydney, and later active.org.au, has been instrumental in organisation and communication between social change groups in Australia. The site carries news and events listings, submitted by users, about social change movements.
I was involved from the humble beginnings, a simple email list, to today's amazing site. Most of my involvement has been in legwork, publicity, system administration, computer building, user training and the like.
