Hi there! Welcome to my semi-incomplete page. I am filling this web site in over time, so you’ll see these pages revamp themselves a bit often. For now, if you are interested in knowing a bit more about me, just surf through the pages on this site or check out these other resources:
photos: gallery, another gallery, TIER gallery, imagestation, flickr
stories: melisssaisfaraway mailing list
church: First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley
school: School of Information, UC Berkeley
profiles: orkut, friendster, linkedin, facebook
bookmarks: del.icio.us
im: melissa.ho (Skype), mrh9 (Yahoo), melissa.ho (Gmail), MelissaRitaHo (AIM)
I’m doing research on technologies for developing regions with the TIER group at UC Berkeley (Cal) and Intel Research in Berkeley. In past lives, I’ve done an MSc in Data Communications, Networks, and Distributed Systems (DCNDS) at University College London, and worked for a couple of up-starts (they don’t quite qualify as startups anymore) companies, Actional andEnsim. If you want the nitty-gritty details,
you can take a look at my old cv/resume. And if you want the dirt you’re going to have to track me down and call me. 
Eventually I’ll be getting myself into this, but in the meantime, I’m happily ensconced here.
I love reading – mostly sci-fi/fantasy, but also a few in the technical, non-fiction, and Christian genres. I also have a number of hobbies, including acrylics, watercolor, Chinese brush painting, and arabic calligraphy. I’m terrible, but I figure with a few more decades of practice,my work might become at least passable. When I’m in California and have a spare weekend, more often than not, you’ll find me hiking and camping in Yosemite.
I’m fascinated by personality theory (I’m INTJ and 5) and other cool things like
optical illusions.
