TerrenceHo@oocities.com

In spring 1994, I used gopher and newsgroups to look for a summer job in Singapore. After I returned from Singapore, I heard more about this thing called Mosaic and this site called Fishwrap. Creating a webpage for myself felt like the thing to do. There were about 300 or so personal pages at MIT. I thought I'd click through them all, partly to see how many ways one can say "this page is still under construction." By the time I thought I was half way through, there were about 700 personal pages. I gave up. Such is the pace of technology.

In summer 1998, I finished my Ph.D. at MIT, and lost what I thought was a pretty neat URL - http://web.mit.edu/hot/. I was happy that I could still store my pages at my research group's server at http://ssg.mit.edu/group/hot/. Who'd know that "free" web hosting and Internet access soon came. Such is the pace of business.

I have divided the content here into five areas

• Letters from Saudi Arabia is a series of stories about the nine months in 1999 that I spent in Saudi Arabia and about several trips I took during that time.
• To the End of World is a long travelogue about a three-week trip to South America I took with a good friend of mine around New Year's 1997.
• Itchy Feet collects the rest of my travel related stories in one place, plus more.
• MIT Years is where you can catch a glimps of the six years I spent in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It's where you can find my Ph.D. thesis, technical papers, an old résumé, and some nerdy jokes.
• Photo Gallery has lots of pictures from my travels.