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I'm in my second year of college, currently attempting to major in mathematics and minor in French and statistics. I work as a front-end web developer for my university library. My greatest ambition in life is to go to Finland, thus becoming awesome*. I believe in freedom in software, semantic markup, and the separation of content from presentation. I am obsessed with squirrels.

• My cats
• Things I listen to
• My Precious
• My Nethack ascensions

* Finns are, by definition, awesome. Consider Marco Hietala, Jarkko Ahola, and Linus Torvalds. Clearly, there is something special about Finland, and I want to be a part of it.

Website

Blessed Pancake began life in the early hours of February 17th, 2007. It was originally written in XML and transformed into XHTML via XSLT, but the current version is entirely PHP and MySQL-based because I got tired of compiling it.

I have occasionally considered using a ready-made CMS instead of writing everything from scratch; however, I have an obsessive compulsion to minimize the filesize of my website and to know exactly how it works. In the end, I scrabbled together a basic admin panel, which, together with phpMyAdmin, works just fine for me.

Blessed Pancake is hosted by NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, who I highly recommend.

Trivia

• The name "Blessed Pancake" originates from the Nethack myth that liches are afraid of pancakes. It is a blessed pancake because, in general, blessed items are preferable to their uncursed and cursed counterparts. Besides, "pancake.com" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
• The somewhat official mascot is an alhoon (mind flayer lich) with a pancake on its head.