The digital age.  Certainly it was quite hard to believe in the 1950's that by the year 2000, there would be such an age in which there would be devices designed to facilitate all aspects of life through the manipulation of mere ones and zeroes.  Nevertheless, here we are, in a society in which those people traditionally thought of as unproductive in society or at the least, unimportant, are those who help to actively and openly shape the future. These people, the programmers and the software designers, are the people I have always aspired to join.  Thus, for the longest time, I have studied as best I can to design and create software that can ease the jobs of many.
	I have always been interested in computers, ever since I was a mere five-year-old boy.  Though at that age I was hardly able to do much more than explore and store information in files, I knew that one day I would learn how to harness the abilities of the computer to advantages hitherto unseen.  Looking back, I like to think I have, in a fashion, but I realize now that there is still so much left that can be made, and I would like to stay on the forefront of that technology.
	In order to do such, I have helped various people by creating and coding software to help their needs.  For example, in one project, named AudioScrobbler, designed to identify similar artists according to a person's tastes, I have attempted to aid by coding a portion of their program to help identify songs more easily.  For others, such as artists interested in creating comics for the web, I have made a program that eases the distribution of their comic, making it considerably easier to focus on artwork, rather than site design.
	This great technology does not mean that I only gained an interest in computers, however.  In fact, it was thanks to modern methods of mass-distribution that I gained one of my other great interests that is suprisingly much older in origin: the Japanese language and their culture, especially Japanese animation.  I have made some of my best friends through our shared interest in Japanese animation, and I most certainly would not have anything close to the personality I have today without those now close friends.
	Admittedly, my personality is rather quirky, and it certainly was without the help of my friends, though they certainly did not make it any less so.  It is not that my personality is a problem, but rather that I am what some might consider a "strange" person.  I go to a private school, and yet the friends I typically talk with have gone to public school.  I make jokes, but they aren't like "the classics."  Instead, they are rather off-beat and eccentric, yet still funny.  I have no problems with singing aloud, even if my voice cracks.  Certainly there are people with qualities like these, but it is not often that a person is "strange" enough to have all of these traits.  I certainly don't mind it, and neither do my friends.