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It's been a while since I programmed something for fun. I could be wrong, but the only thing turned up by a quick perusal of my memory was a Java applet I wrote in 1999 that read documents off the server and displayed their contents. I was a sophomore in college at the time.

Part of the reason it's been a while since I wrote something strictly for fun is because I'm fortunate enough to work on things that are fun. Later that year I got paid to write a Java program that ran on Linux and controlled a Sony video-conferencing camera via the serial port. The next year I got to implement terrain rendering algorithms in C++/OpenGL as part of my job. And then there were all the programs I wrote for classes.

In the professional world I've been fortunate to work on all sorts of things, from platform software to social software, but it's been a while since I banged away on something I started myself and it would be fun to get back into that. I thought maybe hacking on Mephisto would be my next project, but we'll have to see. Whatever I work on will have to be easy to work on in small increments since there's not a lot of time available for it.