"So who is the real Mr. Tines? The monster who'd smash a world, or the nice guy I'm hearing now?"

2001 - Man in Black

---

1992 - In Jordan, shortly after the first Gulf War

---

Mr. Tines relaxing on the Damrak, between bouts of biz, back in '92.

---

Cruising around the South Pacific (to be precise, the Bay of Islands, in the far north of New Zealand), late '96.

---

1996 - Before the US reformed its crypto export laws, this shirt was an illegally exported munition

---

1992 - Shen Kuei, my favourite cat, in typical mood. 4-Jun-83 to 30-Jan-95, R.I.P.

(No) Progress

1. Since May I have managed maybe one evening of work on the crypto, and that mainly starting a rework of the Angerona GUI as an explorer-style. Since CTC works as it stands, the motivation for doing more work is fading - after six years, the enthusiasm starts to wane. I still see some point in Angerona as a Java 1.1 project, with J# as the way to doing a .NET port, and SuperWaba for the Palm (probably each with its own GUI) but don't hold your breath.
2. I have played with some other toys, but there's nothing new of releaseable state as yet
3. Much of my creative energies have for the last year gone into the first bit of new fiction that I've indulged in since college days back in the later 70s. The first couple of chapters are online