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Welcome to my world... my very own corner of cyberspace. Whether you're a curious acquaintance looking to kill some time or an intimidating stalker trying to figure out what makes me tick (hopefully not...), this site offers a look into my personality, my life, and my thoughts and opinions. So sit back, relax, and let your mouse do the talking.

for your listening pleasure

Semisonic - Secret Smile

click player "on" or "off" in top left corner

news and updates

28.02.10 // Finally took down my Christmas layout. Took down the Empress section also due to webspace limitations.

09.12.09 // Christmas has returned on AndyLand! Please enjoy the festive layout.

22.09.09 // The fantasia > Writings section has been updated. New music player!

10.02.09 // A new page has been added to the fantasia section, showcasing my layouts for the Empress undergraduate magazine.

01.01.09 // Happy New Year! It's sad to see AndyLand's festive layout go down, but 2009 awaits!

18.11.08 // Christmas is coming! AndyLand's holiday layout is here and wishing you the very happiest of holidays!

27.10.08 // It's the little things that matter! Today I spent a couple hours fixing all the little layout bugs that plague page to page navigation. I also fixed all the layout errors that occur in Internet Explorer (although I am still at a loss as to what the root cause was in the first place). Lastly, I added an icon for the address bar, since every site that's any site has one.

21.10.08 // The Writings section under Fantasia has been updated with the article "Because it’s Friday night, and we’re playing DDR," a brief introduction to Dance Dance Revolution written for an undergraduate magazine in 2007. I had completely forgotten about this article!

13.10.08 // I've finally replaced the music player with a less obtrusive one that is able to loop music. It took some time to find exactly what I wanted. I've also replaced the song, but because Sympatico remains lame and is only giving me 5 Mb of webspace, I've hosted the song on my Queen's space for now. This is only a temporary solution since that space will be deleted in March along with my Queen's e-mail. A special thanks to Minyan for helping me get the player working.

22.08.08 // I put together a new song using eJay Dance 2 for the site. This one is bigger and really pushes the limits of my webspace in terms of size. It's not anything fancy (I only used like 4 layers of samples), but I like it better than the previous one.

13.08.08 // The website is officially online. It took days of slaving... coding HTML, generating new content, and transferring old content over from the old layout. The site performs *almost* identically on Firefox and Internet Explorer, but I would recommend Firefox. Since I use Firefox, when there are subtle differences, I landed them in Firefox's favour. Of course the most annoying thing about IE is that it initally blocks the music player.

11.08.08 // Website basic layout completed. I am still trying to figure out how to downsize mp3's to fit on my webspace without leaving them with distasteful low quality blips. For now I've posted a song that I put together using a music maker called eJay Dance 2, which is really easy on drive space.