who is jsam?

I am a second-generation computer scientist from Adelaide, South Australia. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I work on the QuickTime engineering team at Apple Computer. I am married to a botanist. I looked like this in January 1996, like this in October 1998, like this in June 1999 and like this on New Year's Day 2000.

photos

• Photographs from my August 1995 holiday in North America, including HOTT.BOB.
• Assorted photographs of me and some of my friends.
• Photographs from MOUNT.BOB, 1-4 August 1997.
• Dinner with Nathan Torkington, 21 August 1997.
• Dinner with Kristen Ankiewicz, 26 August 1997.
• Photographs from Burning Man 1998.

• Manipulating my friends has become a habit.

• More Power to Danish Smoke Detectors, a fantasy about technology jobs.

• EtherPEG, a packet sniffer that displays GIFs and JPEGs transmitted in the clear on local ethernet networks. Public domain.
• Flip Through Images, an application for quickly displaying multiple image files. Kindwordware.

• Progressify, a Macintosh applet for lossless translation between baseline and progressive-display JPEG files. Kindwordware.
• To JPEG, a Macintosh applet for converting image files into JPEG files in one fluid mouse motion. Kindwordware.
• An old, out of date PNG Importer.
• An X Bitmap Importer which lets any Macintosh with QuickTime 2.5 or later view X bitmap (.xbm) files using PictureViewer, or any other application that knows about QuickTime Graphics Importers. Kindwordware; beta.
• Jist, an interactive image-manipulation application for Macintosh. Almost beta.
• Jart, a harder-to-use image-editing application for Macintoshes. Under development, but stalled.
• Elefie, an aged image-synthesis application for Macintosh. Kindwordware; permanent alpha.
• ShapeFader, a fader for use with Tom Dowdy's shareware Macintosh screen-saver, DarkSide of the Mac 4.2. Kindwordware; alpha. (I think it's stable, but I need more words.)

• The October 1991 "Welcome to talk.bizarre" posting by Marc Goodman.
• A review of the Kodak DC-20 digital camera.
• A dated rant about changes to Rundle Mall in Adelaide.
• One solitary academic technical report: Native Code Generation in Persistent Systems (Bushell, Brown, Dearle and Vaughan, 1994).

• How to pretend that you're jsam.