Who are ya?

My name is Tim Horton (of no relation to the fast-food chain). I'm a junior in computer science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, NY. I'm primarily a Mac user, though my main machine dual-boots Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux for various reasons. I spend most of my free time either with a computer or a camera, programming, or taking pictures — Cocoa and Nikon being my preferences in those areas. I was a participant in Google Summer of Code '08; I spent my summer writing an engine allowing Evas to run natively under Mac OS X's rendering engine, Quartz. I returned again in 2009, this time working on 2.5D games for the Gnome Games collection. I'm also a proponent of free and open licenses, placing most of my code under the GNU General Public License and many photographs under various Creative Commons licenses.

What's this thing?

For a long while, I've been writing code, taking pictures, and thinking about things — creating lots of things that I really feel should be shared. I created this site as a means to that end, and, even if no one ever pays any attention, I've at least created an organized home for my ideas for myself! Everything here is here in a format that I understand, and you're all welcome to it. I'm willing to field questions, requests, hate mail, whatever, about anything on this site (or elsewhere!) through email, though I'll certainly not reply to everything!