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I'm Birkin James Diana, and this is my personal website: a kind of experimental technology room.

I'm a programmer & web-developer for the Brown University Library, a terrific institution doing cool work. I code primarily in the languages python, java, and php, and increasingly (and happily) use django. My interests include extreme programming, test-driven development, instant-runoff-voting, weighted-randomization, solar power -- the list is long.

One reason for this site is to have a venue to focus and disseminate a sliver of the numerous ideas I have about how to make the world a better place, mostly in a geeky web-programmer realm. Another reason is to deepen my knowledge of the django web-framework. There's a tension here between using a pre-existing solid and feature-laden service like wordpress.com to communicate ideas, and 'rolling my own' site to deepen learning.

General email address, birkin.diana@gmail.com; work-specfic email address, birkin_diana@brown.edu.