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Name:	Robin Lionheart
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Editing at the Open Directory Project since September 1998.

Games are my biggest hobby. I enjoy thinking games of various kinds, be they board games, card games, role-playing games, video games, or even abstract games like Nomic.

Since my parents bought me my first IBM PC, I've been an interactive fiction aficionado. My childhood dream was to grow up and write games for Infocom, my favorite game developer. (Alas, Infocom is no more. Now my dream is to work for LucasArts. :-) Instead, I ended up spending about a decade developing patches for an open source Rogue-like RPG called NetHack.

My high school French teacher got me interested in Esperanto when I talked to him about constructed fantasy languages. Since then I've also dabbled in conlangs, undertaking pursuits like analyzing the D'ni language in Riven: The Sequel to Myst.

At university, my friends introduced me to anime. I bought myself a textbook and taught myself basic Japanese to understand anime better. One of the best things I've ever done was backpack around Japan for three weeks, staying in youth hostels, immersing myself in the language and the culture.

Music games seem to drive my console purchases. Though I'm not a console fan, I enjoyed playing Bust A Move: Dance & Rhythm Action at the anime club so much, it convinced me to buy a PlayStation. For months, that was the only game I owned which didn't come with the console. Then I got hooked on Dance Dance Revolution, and bought floor mat controllers to play that and its sequels. When the vinyl mats started to wear out, I replaced them with expensive hard plastic ones. There was no reason for me to upgrade to a PlayStation 2 until DDRMAX and FreQuency. Yet for all I've spent on console and controllers, I own few PlayStation/PS2 games. I prefer video gaming on my PC.

A more recent hobby of mine is Web standards. I developed an HTML 4.0 test suite on my website, and started to discuss standards in the W3C discussion forums and the Opera Software newsgroups. Lately I've tried to help make the open source browser Mozilla more standards compliant. On my website, I experiment with emerging XML technologies like XHTML, XSL Transformations, and SVG.

Over my first two years editing here, I notice my editing has gradually shifted from an emphasis on video games and anime to Web standards and activism. Perhaps it's a sign that I'm getting older and thinking more about the future.

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