Who the heck do you think you are?

I am Chase. I live in the cold frigid reaches of northern Michigan, in a room, full of computers with too many screens and an Internet connection.

I started out as a programmer of BASIC back in 1998, a time which BASIC was well past its prime. I moved to pretending to be able to program C for muds. I didn’t actually know how to do it, but I pretended to. After not to long I had a general idea of how C functions worked, and how to fix most simple compile problems.

Well after that phase passed I kinda dropped into PHP for a few years, mostly writing small CMS from scratch, dealing with mysql, and generally being annoyed at javascript.

Around 2006, I got into Java, hard, thanks to a programming game called Robocode, programming AIs to do battle on a 2D plane. Here I learned data structures, genetic algorithms, statistical analysis, data mining, pattern matching, and neural networks. Along with many good programming practices. Thanks guys!

I later moved back to C/C++ due to college courses and work on PPSE-DS, a pokemon save editor made to run on the DS itself. I wrote many other things during that period.

I have indirectly influenced or had impact on many large projects. Really this is what surprises me most, since I didn’t think people actually listened to me.

I have not personally started any big company, help build a popular infrastructure, or been on the ground floor of any big change in technology.  I have been in many instances where such a thing occurred after I left the project, usually due to boredom or annoyance over it never getting updated (by anyone else). But C’est la vie, right?

So what does CSDGN stand for?

Long story short, it originally stood for ChaseSansDesiGN. Now it is just a catchy 5 letter name for me and all my projects. I think that an online acronym generator found it for me while I was trying to find a good domain that wasn’t taken. So nothing really special. I originally went with design, as at the time I was considering starting a webcomic!

If you ment, if CSDGN `stands` for something on the other hand. CSDGN is all about free software, strives for web standards, but is against internet censorship, spam, and people trying to limit my freedoms. I happen to like my freedoms, thank you very much. They’re all so very free and dom.. ish.. Shutup.

Who drew that awesome image in the corner!?

That was drawn by Caroline Sharpe, better known as Liz. It wasn’t free, so don’t get any ideas. You can find her DeviantArt at http://lizcakes.deviantart.com.

Okay, so how do I contact you?

You want to contact me? Well you can in any of the following ways.

• Find me on Bitsjoint-IRC under the nickname Chase.
• Contact me on AIM by the name of chasesandrgn.
• Contact me on Yahoo by the name of chasesandrgn.
• Add me on Skype by the name of chasesan, give a good reason.
• Contact me on Google Talk at punfrfna@tznvy.pbz. (mouseover to view)
• Contact me by email punfr@pfqta.bet or at punfrfna@tznvy.pbz. (mouseover to view)