Hi there. Welcome to my home page. The purpose of these pages is to tell the world a little bit about who I am on both professional and personal levels.

Professionally, I describe myself as a software engineer who prefers to work in Unix networked environments on primarily commercial products. My specialty is in "white box testing", which means that I prefer to know how the target software system is structured and design my tests to probe places in the software most prone to break. Besides Unix perl and shell scripting, I have also written tests in PostScript and PCL print languages. In addition to testing, I have developed software in C and Java.

Personally, I am primarily a philosopher, but I haven't decided what kind of philosopher. fnord. Currently, my primary hobby is the study of history - architectural history and the history of urban planning, history of the intellectual development of Europe, history of technology, art history, and regional Southern California history, etc. Besides history, I enjoy hiking in the Angeles National Forest, and the study of plants native to the mediterranean climatic region of California. I enjoy music of all kinds, but my main interest is in vocal or instrumental music based on pentatonic scales, or music that uses subtle changes in pitch to evoke a mystical or psychedelic sound. Most Arabic, North African, Balkan, Indian, and some Celtic music falls into this category. There were a number of 80's rock bands like XTC or the Rain Parade that also fall into this category.
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Timothy Holdener