Metal Bat

• I am William Van Hecke.
• This site exists to keep track of all the dumb stuff I have on the internet.
• @fetjuel is my Twitter dude.
• Heta no Yokozuki Sekai 4 is a blog of varying merit.

Design

• Since 2004, I’ve been the User Experience Lead at the Omni Group, makers of maxgood Mac and iOS software.
• Designing Graceful, Gracious Interfaces for iPad is a one-hour talk I gave at Voices That Matter Autumn 2010 and Spring 2011, and Øredev 2011.
• From Mac to iPhone to iPad and Back is another one-hour talk that I gave at Voices That Matter Autumn 2011 and Øredev 2011.
• I have a few posts on the Omni blog about design and things.

Modeling

• Sometimes I do 3D modeling. It used to be in Cinema 4D, then Blender, and now Modo. I have nothing to show for this yet, though.
• I have accumulated a whole lot of garage kits, but the only one I have built is Goth-Loli Rei.

Collection

• Books are the best. Here is my list at Goodreads.
• Sometimes I post up pictures of inspiring things at Pinterest.
• Language is a perfect, beautiful monster. I collect my favorite words at Wordnik.

Writing

• (out of context) is a lo-fi photo-journal that begins in Tokyo in 2002.
• One time someone tried to sell me fake video games on eBay.
• A long time ago I documented my first and second trips to Japan.

Translation

• Clamm-bon Eigo-ban is my long-running project to provide English info and lyrics translations for clammbon, my favorite band in the world.
• A bunch of us fans are trying to create a new English version of the lovely PS2 game Ar tonelico 2, at the At2 Relocalization Project.
• In 2002, I coordinated the Xenosaga Madness Project, a translation and guide to the PS2 game Xenosaga Episode I.

Tabletop Gaming

• Did you know you can use OmniGraffle for tabletop gaming? We use this for our dual-DM campaign at work.
• I have a nice Warmachine army, of the Protectorate of Menoth faction, but there are no photographs of it yet.

Coding

• I really like Python and jQuery.
• Julian and I have been trying to make a game since 2003. You can watch us at the Soft Landing Developers’ Diary.
• It is remarkable how many names in marketing and fiction could have been created by my Badass Name Generator.
• Helpify is a tool for turning OmniOutliner documents into Apple Help Books.

Music

• I play bass in a rock and roll band called HOXA with @optshiftk, @zroundbls, and @frozendevil.
• You can follow my listening habits at last.fm.
• Sometimes I try to figure out how to play obscure songs on the bass, and document my findings.
• I am slowly pursuing Operation: Learn to Play Bass on Every Rush Song Ever.

Video Games

• Game Shelf is a database of all of my video games.
• Button Trance is a column that I write about infatuating games. The first one is still at the somewhat-busted old Heisei Democracy site, which I administered back in its heyday. The rest are just blog posts.
• I always liked video games. But in 2002, I discovered Sakura Taisen and it turned me into a whole new kind of geek.
• In like 2000 or so I made a Genesis controller work on PSX.

• Now you’re at the bottom of my web site.