By the way, the matrix image is 1600x1200 and 389K. You'd save on some bandwidth and download speed if you used a smaller image.

It's on imageshack or photobucket or somewhere. It was a last minute google images addition. On a mobile so can't resize it ATM. Sorry.

Edit: Fixed. Along with an issue where wordpress for iPhone ate HTML entities for a canvas tag and the following paragraph.

As a child programmer I've always been slightly scared of the static keyword. It still feels odd 20 years later

Black magic I tell you!

Strikingly similar to my journey! :)

Yeah, I guess a lot of people have similar stories, certainly a few of my friends who code said they were similar :P