My main hobbies are music, programming, and maintaining web pages.

I started programming back in 1984 on the Commodore 64, having to make do with the simple and atrociously incomplete "Commodore Basic v2". I never took Basic seriously and started doing bits in machine code. I was known primarily as a music ripper (my handle was "ACC" - "Amazing Cracking Conspiracy", not to be confused with the German "Active Cracking Crew"). That went on until early 1987, when I discovered "GfA Basic"; I had in the mean time switched to the Atari ST. During the years that I had an Atari ST (and later an Atari Falcon) I developed and maintained the "Ultimate Virus Killer" (the de-facto industry standard Atari ST/TT/Falcon virus killer), the disk-based magazine "ST News" and a variety of more or less useful (or perhaps useless) shareware/freeware programs. In 1996 I switched to the PC, and picked up "Visual Basic" programming in early 1998. Using the ST emulator "GEMulator", I also still sortof maintain the "Ultimate Virus Killer" in "GfA Basic". My claim to fame (sortof) on the PC is an insult generator called "The Second Reincarnation of the Final Grandson of Wowbagger of Infinitely Prolonged".

Web site maintenance is something I didn't start doing until May 1998. It basically consists of looking at other people's HTML code and asking a lot of questions, then mixing that basic knowledge with what I want to get across. The result is never quite aesthetically staggering, but will have to do anyway. I always put emphasis on the content, and I realise that nobody in their right minds will ever hire me to do web page design. Still, I'm learning. I maintain several web sites, such as "The ST News Lamentation Pages", "ST News International Christmas Coding Convention 2000", "The Official Detente / Fear of God / Dawn Crosby site", "Strat Central", "Heartfield Central" and "The Plantiac Adoration Shrine". I think it's absolutely vital to keep pages up-to-date, so web site maintenance is the hobby that absorbs most of my time. No dead links, that's my webmaster motto.

Music, to be honest, is a pretty passive hobby as far as I am concerned. Although I play the guitar I am not in a band. Music to me is pretty much a passive thing. I primarily just listen to CDs. Genres I dig include various kinds of metal (including thrash, death, doom and black), hardrock, neo-classical/shred guitarists, synthesizer virtuosos, bombastic classical music and a rather select section of pop. Hardcore/skatecore/mallcore/emo does as little for me as country and western (or free jazz, for that matter).
Maybe you have an interesting musical item (CD, video, bootleg) you want to get rid of...click here to see a list of stuff I am really looking for.
Those who want to have their faith in my aforementioned musical taste rocking on its very foundations might want to check out my WinAmp 'Classics 1955-2001' Playlist (sorted more or less chronologically). Those who wish to be reassured may want to check out my WinAmp 'Obnoxiously Loud Compilation for Travelling To and From Work' Playlist.