About

My name is Desi Quintans. I live in Sydney, Australia.

I started Paper Tiger on the 29th of July, 2002, shortly after a dirty and shameful break-up with my first girlfriend. For around a month Paper Tiger was a badly designed hotbed of misdirected and embarassing emo-blogging.

At the end of that month I began re-reading what I had written. Pathetic.

I deleted the archives.

From then on I began writing pieces of short fiction. Almost all of them had a sad, longing tone because it had only been a month after my break-up and I was still pretty sad and lonely and when I looked around me all I could see were sad, desperate people who also wanted a place where they could vent all of their emotions without resorting to futile emo-blogging like I had.

This writing short fiction business continued for about a year, and I call this phase of Paper Tiger’s life the Glory Days. During the Glory Days I got an unbelievable amount of response from all over the world. I best remember a series of emails from a university student in India (a medical student I think) expressing surprise that I could pump out one quality piece of fiction every day. The amount I wrote was insane. One piece of good fiction a day, for a year.

When I switched blog software from Blogger to CheesyBlog almost the entire archive of the Glory Days was lost. At the time I didn’t really care, but now I’m torn up, and at times I pace about wringing my hands and rubbing my forehead in consternation.

In this phase of Paper Tiger, which I call the Cheesy Blog, I tried to diversify by writing How To articles and other suchlike pieces. Existing articles with bad picture quality were made then using a 2 megapixel camera I borrowed from my friend.

Now in the present day Paper Tiger is run by my own custom software, Writer’s Block, which is free under the GPL and available for you to download and use. These days my article writing has slowed down, and I mostly concentrate on phony gimmicks to attract teh big buckz0rz. Most of the newness is found on the front page, and it’s not half bad.

Paper Tiger is published using Writer’s Block, a Content Management System that I coded myself. Thanks also to my webhost, SmartArtist.

Go to the Contact page to contact me. There’s MSN Messenger, Email and a convenient feedback form set up for you.

And thanks for visiting me: it sure gets lonely out here.