Chris: In my early 20’s, and graduated from engineering at the University of Waterloo. I was born in Toronto, and I’ve lived in the same house for my entire life. I’ve grown accustomed to the city life and I love exploring new parts of town any chance I get. If I had all the time in the world, and the means to finance my life, I would travel and see as much of the world as I could. I’ve only travelled alone to Quebec and Beijing, each for a month and a half. In the summer of 2005, I spent a month backpacking in Europe with CJ and Sandra. By the end of the trip my camera broke, and so was I.
bennymoto: My online web-handle. The name is drawn from a video game ad campaign. I’ve been using it since 2000 or 2001, and I’ve grown to love it. It’s become my alter-ego. I don’t think there are any other bennymoto’s on the web, at least none in the last few years.
contact: There are several ways you can find me. Email me at bennymoto@hiyo.org, give me a ring on my cell phone, or drop me a message on AOL (bennymotomon), ICQ (14179453), or MSN (my gmail email address). I use them simulataneously in my chat client for Mac - it’s called Adium.
Chris on the web: I used to edit the Student Life Centre, a UW blog started in February 2005. I also administrate the hiyo.org Media Network. You may have seen me co-chairing the Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference 2005. My public photos are on my Flickr page. The websites I read are all in my Bloglines. I welcome all Friendster and Facebook flirting.
Created: August 2004
Updated: November 2006
bennybox: Chris’ personal blog since 2001. Part of the hiyo.org network. Mostly about videogames, technology, Toronto and the various whozits and whatnots that cross my day-to-day experiences.
Origins: The humble beginnings of this website aren’t very well documented, and I’m straining my brain just to fill in the details.. It started on free sites like Geocities, Fortunecity, then migrated to ISP webspace like Interlog and @home/Rogers. Sometime in 2000 i picked up my web moniker: Bennymoto. A character from Sega GT print ads.
hiyo.org: Then the domain came: hiyo.org. A bud from high school registered hiyo.org with me, way back in 2000 (i think…). At the beginning, hiyo.org was just a page with links to our two personal websites. Eventually we started our weblogs, and added the sites of some highschool classmates to the mix.
Recently: In June I bought bennymoto.com, and moved my personal site from hiyo.org to here. Right now, I still manage and finance hiyo.org which still includes the websites and projects of Simon, Eugene, Hitoshi, Devin and Carrie.
Photos: My long loved Minolta Dimage X broke on streets of Copenhagen. I’d like to get a serious camera one day. In the mean time, I occasionally upload photos taken with my entry-level digital point and shoot to my Flickr account.
Layout: bennymoto.com is managed with a Wordpress install running on Apache servers. This website was created under a Creative Commons License. Just a year ago, I used to manually create template files in Microsoft Word. The usage of tweaked templates probably represent how much free time I have these days.
Created: January 2004
Updated: November 2006