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I'm a Christian: an occasional teacher and for many years a regular song leader (without formal training for either, but with considerable slightly-organized reading.)

I'm a programmer by profession, with training and experience in computer languages and systems. I'm particularly interested in proof techniques and knowledge organization and representation (both their techniques and their limitations).

I'm an avid reader of nonfiction (archaeology; History of science, technology, and religion; linguistics; natural history; and miscellaneous other stuff printed on paper); For relaxation, I read an eclectic (but narrow) selection drawn mostly from English classics and science fiction. In desperate circumstances, I'd read a dictionary (but probably not a phone book.)

I listen to music: concentrating on high German baroque, but almost any style from Purcell to Poulenc. (However, I carefully avoid musical genres where the identity of the performer or performance is more significant than that of the composer or the composition.)

My hobby (indexing hymnals) represents a conjunction of all these characteristics: here was something which I would need regularly and had the tools to do, but which was being done spectacularly badly. And web research for it brought me to the ODP.

I do not have a web site, but have done scanning, proofing, and formatting of hymnic material for the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.

I aggressively tend ODP "Hymns", and have adopted several orphan or vacant categories (where I could pretend some minimal knowledge) as a caretaker or housecleaner. I consider the "Editall" and "Meta" privileges a great honor; I also appreciate the community's voting me two "Mozzie" awards: 2000 "tie for second most congenial editor" and 2002 "tie for best science editor;" but would feel more comfortable displaying the award banners if I had thought they were, um, well, actually deserved.