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William Kimball, Jr.

This is William's little place on the web. You're either a web search spider, a spam bot, or someone actually interested in who this person really is. Who or whatever you are, suit yourself and consume to your heart's content. :)

Here, you will find some facts about William, samples of his artwork, and his favorite web sites.

Due to privacy concerns, you will not find William's formal résumé, a blog, any detailed demographic data, or any direct contact information other than an obfuscated form of one of his e-mail addresses. If you have reason to pursue such information about him, please start by utilizing his e-mail address: <wwweb at kimballstuff dot com>.

Facts

William is:

• ... a programmer of many years (started in 1985 on a Commodore PET 64). These are only a few of his projects that currently have a web presence. Being on the web, they are either Open Source or other publicly accessible web sites. William's project pages are a real dry read to most people, but if you're a network administrator or curious programmer, you may find some time well spent here. For the curious, William writes code in C/C++/C#.NET, Pascal, FoxPro/Visual FoxPro, BASIC/QBASIC/VB/VB.NET, PHP, Perl, Java, ASP/JScript, JavaScript, and various shell scripts like DOS, bash, and PowerShell. He is also adept with formatting languages like HTML/XHTML, XML, XSLT, and CSS. No good programmer gets far without learning RDBMS platforms, and William has spent considerable time since 1996 with Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and FoxPro queries, administration, stored procedures, maintenance, and tuning.
• ... a college student. He is a member of an international honor society and the recipient of several academic honors from two colleges. William has already graduated both community college (Associate of Science) and baccalaureate college (Bachelor of Science in Business Management with a Minor in Computer Science) and he continues his academic pursuit at a prominant state graduate college, seeking dual master's degrees: a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Computer Information Systems. He hopes to graduate in the Fall of 2010 and may continue his academic pursuit by acquiring a PhD in the Business, Computer Science, or Computer Information Systems fields. Of course, that endeavor depends on what the job market looks like in the Spring of 2011.
• ... a computer networking study. William has been involved in computer networking since the days of Windows 3.11 (Windows for Workgroups) when the best-known networking drivers were from Novell and LANtastic. Since then he has picked up myriad networking and internetworking experience using Cisco hardware, Microsoft and Linux server platforms, and both wired and wireless environments.
• ... an Anime fan. What started with "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" (at the time, on HBO as "Warriors of the Wind") has grown into a collection of several hundred DVD and VHS Japanese Anime products. A slightly outdated list of the titles we own is available in our public share directory.
• ... a video games enthusiast and collector. William maintains -- always hooked up and ready to play -- every video games console that he acquires. With few exceptions, William has nearly every console and hand-held ever made since the Atari 2600! Oddly, William has played less than half of the software titles he owns; purchasing most games on reputation alone or to complete sets like the entire Final Fantasy or Zelda collections.
• ... an on-and-off martial arts student. Since he was 14 years old, William has studied a variety of martial arts including primarily Tae Kwon Do, Jujitsu, and Eskrima. While unranked, he also has exposure with Tai Lu Chuan Fa, Capoira, and Ken Po.
• ... an amateur musician. William plays electric bass guitar most, drawing influence mostly from heavy and new metal bands.
• ... involved in community organizations both on campus and off. William has founded clubs that still exist today and takes part in organizations that have community outreach, some international. William usually seeks leadership roles in these organizations, preferring to lead than to follow.
• ... a promoter of knowledge and fair treatment. Beware to those who attempt to spread misinformation where he's watching because he will argue for the truth, often drawing the ire of those who prefer to "tell only the side which benefits the self", or deceive others by witholding details, or worse. Beware also those who are overly selfish, greedy, elitist, or otherwise non-team-oriented in his presense; he is swift to make a scene at your expense.

Artwork Samples

William is an amateur artist, dabbling in pencil drawings, manga, digital works, 3-D images, technical drawings, and photography. The works shown here are low-resolution copies of the masters he keeps on file. William maintains his legal copyright on all images contained herein. To request copy permission or to commission alterations or original works, please contact William via e-mail at <wwweb at kimballstuff dot com>.

• Drawings - Pieces put to paper including abstract works and manga-influenced frames.
• Photography - Some striking photos captured out in the wild, at a ranch, or on the 4th of July.
• Digital Artwork - Digitally enhanced images or original works created with a digitizer tablet.
• 3-Dimensional Image Renderings - 3-D meshes-turned-digital-images including technical and abstract pieces.

Link Share

Shameless promotion of other web sites that I'd like you to take a look at:

• Mozilla Firefox - Simply better than Internet Explorer.
• Your Yahoo! Home Page - If you're not already aggregating all your news sources here, why not?