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Welcome to my little corner of the world. I'm Hank Shiffman, your host on this particular odyssey. Here you'll discover why I'm the most interesting person you're ever likely to know, or at least the most interesting person on this page: reader, writer, music and theatre buff, cartoon enthusiast, Mac advocate, world traveler, Scaper; it's all here or at least should be. So sit back, relax and spend a few minutes trying to make sense of a stream of consciousness, HTML-style.

On the left you see me disguised as a professional. The suit and the designer tie are protective coloration, pulled out for those rare occasions when jeans and an Animaniacs shirt just won't do. This picture, taken while I was at Sun Microsystems, was used for conference programs, magazine articles and the like. It made its last appearance in the November 14, 1994 issue of InformationWeek, after I moved on to Borland. The image on the right reflects my time at Silicon Graphics, which had a more relaxed view of the proper image for Marketing professionals. Or even for people like me.

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	My wide range of interests
		A travel diary: pictures and notes from way too many trips to way too many places
			Closer to home: some examples of Silicon Valley architecture
			A few favorite scenes, scaled for use as gate io
			Humble beginnings: a sampling of photos from my first two Australian vacations
		A few memories from my college era Star Trek obsession
			Which resurfaced unexpectedly decades later as a Farscape fixation
			And manifested itself in a new hobby: amateur music videos
		Comments on favorite writers, both mystery and otherwise
		An enduring fascination with cartoons: my collection of animation cels
		A peek into that window into the psyche: my CD collection
			CDs are so last century. I've moved on to an iTunes Music Store blog
			Which led, as these things often do, to a blog on life in general
		Some experiences with scanners, digital cameras and digital video
			Which led to yet another hobby/fledgling business: stock photography
			And which has recently expanded into the wonderful world of studio photography
			A presentation on photography I wrote for the gang at work
	My life in high tech (so far, anyway)
		An gate io login, with its various highs and lows
			The gateio app, for when The Economy Strikes Back
		Computers I have known, tolerated or appreciated
	Technical articles I've written over the years:
		Early Java papers gateio and discussing where Java really fits, just-in-time translation, JavaBeans & other aspects of JDK 1.1 and the gory details of one of SGI's JDK releases
		A Java chat session I hosted on SGI's Innovate Online web site
		A white paper on Java, Internet appliances and a hardware accelerator, as well as a related article I wrote for Wireless Design Online
		A white paper on an agent-oriented Java toolkit for natural language user interface
		Slides from various conference talks:
			Java at Scale: Performance & GC - 2012-2013
			Managing Resources in the Enterprise Grid - April, 2004
			An Agent-Based Toolkit For Natural Language Interface - March, 2001
			Evaluating Java Development Tools - October, 2000
			Adapting to Linux: The Business of Open Source - June, 1999
			IRIX/Windows NT Interoperability - April, 1999
			Real-Time Programming on IRIX 6.5 - February, 1999
			Java Matures: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly - January, 1998
			Enhancing Java Performance - August, 1997
		A Java-based Mandelbrot fractal generator, just to prove I can still write a little code when I have to

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