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Roy Tang

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roytang.net

Every person has a story to tell. Some facet of themselves that they want the world to be aware of. This website forms part of my story. At the very least, roytang.net is an experiment, a playground of sorts where I can throw whatever jumbled thoughts or ideas come out. In the future, I believe everyone will own their own piece of the ‘net anyway. Might as well start early.

Take a look around, maybe you’ll find something that grabs your interest.

Site History

As of 27 Dec 2008, the website has been migrated to a Django-powered backend. More details in the 2008 colophon.

I’ve been dabbling in HTML and/or “web design” since I first got exposed to the internet - around 1997 or so. I put “web design” in quotes because I’m not particularly good at it. :o

The first six or seven years were largely crap, although I’ve manage to recover some of the entries starting 2002 and imported them to Wordpress. I have used the following URLs for some periods of time:

http://www.geocities.com/zroytang/
http://roytang.topcities.com/
http://roytang.sinfree.net/

When the blogging phenom started, I quickly realized that my series of sequential dated psots was pretty much similar to one of them blog thingies. I started an account on blogger, which is still extant at http://roywantsmeat.blogspot.com. (All the content there has subsequently been migrated to http://roytang.net)

In January 2006, with the glut of locally-available and cheap hosting plans, I decided, “Why the hell not”, and went ahead and bought my own domain and migrated everything here.

And here we are.

Reading List

28-Dec-2007: I’m too lazy to keep this up-to-date

28-Dec-2008: I’m too lazy to make a separate flat page for this!

Last Updated: 25-Apr-2006

Currently Reading

  • The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The World is Flat

In The Queue

  • Life of Pi by Vann Martel
  • Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  • Stardust by Neil Gaiman

In The Future

  • The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams

Previous Reading