About HMU

Chris Anderson MSc (comp sci) Bsc

I love the internet and I've been involved with it forever - starting as a student in the late 80s and then as a world wide web user & developer since its creation in 1993 with the release of the Mosaic browser.

I was a founding member of the HyperMedia Unit at The University of Auckland's Computer Science Department in the same year. While with Auckland University I taught design and user testing in a graduate level paper on Multimedia & Hypermedia Systems for over a decade.

My specialties are in the areas of user interfaces & user testing, design and media (including compression). I've built or supervised well over 100 web/multimedia projects. I'm also a multimedia whizz, so if it's media, I know how to make it work: text, images, audio, video, etc. You name it!

I'm a founding member of WDANZ, the Web Developers Association of NZ, who do great work at improving knowledge both within the web industry and out to the public.

I know that the words CDs and DVDs are never spelt with an apostrophe, why floppy disk is spelt with a 'k' and compact disc is spelt with a 'c' ... but can't spell very well anyway. Hooray for spelling checkers.

I frequently write for Tone magazine and much less recently for MacGuide magazine as it's purely online now. I'm a published illustrator and keen cartoonist.

In my spare time, I occasionally perform Improv (improvised) theatre and comedy at the Covert Theatre, and standup comedy at the Classic comedy bar but I'm married ... so I have no spare time anyway.

Isn't is funny how it's web convention is to call the call the information page "About Us", even when I've just talking about myself. Now I could start talking in the third person ...