My interests include writing travelogues and creating low-res animations, short film and spoofs for my personal website. I also enjoy travel, cycling, surfing, music, the theatre, photography and reading.
The most up-to-date list of my recent publications and presentations is available from the front page of miaridge.com.
I also discuss some of my research and practical interests, publications and presentations on my blog, Open Objects.
'Manipulating XML data with ASP and XPATH'
'Basic web design': Melbourne Webgrrls website (website no longer online)
'Web layout with tables': Melbourne Webgrrls website (website no longer online)
Contributor to internet.au magazine
I was an active volunteer in computer related organisations in Australia.
1998 - June 2001
Co-leader
DigitalEve Melbourne/Melbourne Webgrrls
This was a challenging role, including the following tasks:
1999 - 2000
Stage set design
ALSO dance parties
Sin Millennium 1999, Red Raw 2000, Winterdaze 2000.
1994 - June 2001
Volunteer Webmaster, Web Designer and List Administrator
I maintained several 'community interest' lists with Majordomo. I provided html, graphic design and content for community websites. I assisted with the routine maintenance of web servers.
Professional Member British Computer Society (MBCS)