My name's Roderick Charlie Wahr. I started these Web pages in 1996 to improve my knowledge of HTML including everything that surrounded it. Another reason for building these pages was to tell you about family and relations; it is at the same time a tribute to my mom, who was of Indonesian descent and who passed away in Jakarta on 12th November 1996. Also, on these pages , I'll try to put down some of my day-to-day ramblings here in Jakarta, Indonesia, heh-heh....
A peek at the menu content will give you an idea whether this stop in cyber world is worthy of the precious time you spend cruising the World Wide Web Waves. If you're interested, and you should be, then don't forget to read my Mission statement. Now, if you don't care a t*hS about my motivations and just want to look (1 pictures says 1000 words), then don't hesitate to browse through my little kingdom.
Oh, by the way if you're looking for, you know... those pictures, they're not here. No, I'm not a moralist, each person has his own dark little secrets, and I have a few hundred Megs lying around somewhere, but these pages should be the civilized part of me which I want to show. Also if you're looking for cracks and/or warez, if you know what that means, they're not here either; same explanation as above; I'm not Mr. Clean, but I would like to show the law abiding me here. But.... who knows, maybe through one of my links you'll bump into something special you're looking for, after all this cyber world is full of dark corners (which we all occasionally like to visit to enable us to distinguish light from dark), and which is white today may be black tomorrow!
To all of you, my visitors, I would like to express my apologies if my pages are not technically wiz-bang-wow, but I started experimenting with HTML as of October 1996, and I have my own idea about designing a website. I've learned about Java and DHTML, boy! that took some time! So, if you have any hints? Yes, please. Here in Indonesia (that's where I currently am), I have to find my way around on my own, so I do my learning through picking up stuff on the net, getting books and experimenting.
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Objectives of the home page
To share ideas and experiences with the world community.
To introduce myself to a broader public.
To receive feedback so I can improve myself.
To try and become a better global citizen.
To show myself that besides my many shortcomings I also have a number of unselfish traits.
All above, so I can leave some footprints behind for others to see where I've been, so they can decide for themselves which path to follow when coming to the same crossroads.
Content
The pages shall contain the following:
Static pages (Personal background, views and phylosophies)
I am grateful for those Domains such as Geocities , Super Zippo, and others like them, for providing persons like myself space, free of charge or against very reasonable charge, to express ourselves to the global community. It is excellent to look for commercial gain, however, once achieved, it is divine to share some of it back to those still holding the bottom rung of the ladder.
Who am I (a little background)
At the mature age of 27, with a background in manufacturing for Philips Telecommunications, I started in the fascinating world of card processing machines and computers, so called mainframes and midframes -taking up lots of office space, in 1969. I thoroughly enjoyed finding new exciting ways of doing things, like making extra holes in Hollerith cards to cheat the card processing machines (I was too lazy to punch new cards). I had a vision: one day, not far away, you'd go to the computer store and order all the software stuff you needed and they'd be all in 'chip' form. You just plug them into extension sockets of your computer, there! All I managed to achieve was having started and owned 4 professional software systemhouses in the 70s and 80s, and nothing left to show for it; even though I thought myself to be brilliant, some others too, even! Now I'm just another advisor and I traveled the world to share my experience. I'm considered old because of my calender age and my audiences find me interesting because of my experience, but generally it is felt that this information age belongs to the young.
Mister BG of MS, as a teenager, started toying with little electronic gadgets they called microcomputers, ending 70s. I read about those things in 'Electronics World' when they came out beginning 70s, they were small, incomprehensible, little lights on them, no keyboards, just switches, and they looked insignificant and cosmetically very yucky! Nothing special about Mr. BG's fanaticism (all of us interested in computers had no idea of time, just the determination to leave something beautiful behind that others would use, which would boost our ego). He developed a toy programming language called BASIC and bought QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) off a friend; a buggy operating system which ideas were mainly copied off the then current CPM operating system for 'real' microcomputers. (At that time I was into 4th Generation Languages, Relational Database Systems and Data Communication). However, Mr. BG, with those items in hand, along with a rapid 'flue de bouche' (flow of the mouth; no, no, no, NOT snake tongue!) and a suitcase full of guts he managed to build an empire. Oh yeah, he was also pretty smart, but then so was I, I think. Now what did I do wrong?
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All opinions and statements on these pages are entirely my (Roderick C. Wahr) own. Unless explicitly stated, neither the IP where these pages are located nor it's owners shall be held responsible. Where sources of information are referred to, I am not accountable for their content. Any links referred to from these pages are outside of my responsibility and therefore I am not accountable for their content.
), and which is white today may be black tomorrow! 
