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Thanks for coming!

This site's sole purpose is for me to show off. Follow the links above to view the chronicles of various design projects I have taken up in the last few years. Everything from software and flash devlopment, to wood working projects, to automotive customization.

This site uses a bit a jQuery (a much better way of working with JavaScript) and several other really goofy tricks I've learned over the years. For the time being, I'm not sure which browers work/don't work. I'm currently developing against FireFox 3.5. I'd like to say any FireFox version should be ok, but I make no promises.

Who am I?

My name is Brian. By day I'm a software developer, by night I'm just another guy that likes to tinker with things.

What do I do?

Where to begin!? I develop software with various languages from B-P (Basic-Python and in between). I rip apart cars, and put them back together. I don't know how to keep a cell phone in a factory setting. I build things from wood using any tool I can find. I play a good varity of instruments, but spend most of my time with guitars.

Why do I do it?

If it has moving parts, I have to see why, and then how can I change it. I want to make things better. Put simply, I like to see things do stuff.

As I mentioned above, my name is Brian. I was born in Baltimore, MD and have spent the more than 20+ years of my life in the surrounding vicinity. I attended a technical high school with a focus in Engineering, and continued on with Computer Engineering for my B.S. Over the years I've done whatever I can to learn something new. I tend to enjoy everything I do so much that I find it hard to prioritize one hobby over another. My typical out door activities include: kayaking (my newest hobby), playing tennis, and working on/fixing/driving cars. My inside activities include: working on computers, playing guitar or piano, and fixing up my house. As a full time software developer I try to spend additional time on keeping up with new technologies I'm not actively using by doing things such as working on my personal website and helping other developers.

insaneintention designs is sort of a business title, and sort of an online alias. It typically follows me on automotive customization sites since I do things that aren't... typical, hense an, insane intention, but also, instead of dealing with a ton of various logins, I can be found on a few open source development sites, or other sites that categorize my hobbies.

The simple answer, I'm color-blind. The long answer, it's just easier to do everything in B&W without bugging my wife every ten minutes to ask if colors clash, and to make sure I'm using blue, and not purple. If I was desperate, I would just track down the HEX for each color, but then we'd only be talking the typical eight colors out of a box of crayons.

Highlights
  • Jul 12, 2009

    Browser compatability:
    FireFox 3.0: OK
    FireFox 3.5: OK
    IE 6: Development Tab Not Working
    IE 8: CSS Problems, Development Tab Not Working

  • Jul 11, 2009

    Fixed the sublinking.

    This site uses JavaScript to load content dynamically. So while it looks best in FireFox, it also hinders a lot of the use of the middle click to open new tabs.

  • Jul 10, 2009

    Revamped the old site. Man, did it need it.

    This is still under development, so while the main links do work, some sublinks do not.