Kaelri

Michael Engard is a writer, web designer and political activist. Kaelri is his pseudonym. He is active in the areas of Internet technology, graphical user interface design, and digital rights as they apply to American and international society. In addition to his freelance writing on this website, he has also guest written for the software and lifestyle blog Lifehacker.

He is best known for Enigma, a suite for the open-source Windows applet platform Rainmeter. To date, Enigma has been downloaded over 2 million times, has received accolades from Lifehacker, Computer Bild and Windows Vista Magazine, and was selected as Rainmeter’s first “featured suite” to be bundled with the program installer as a default option for users. He and continues to serve as a project developer for Rainmeter.

He is currently the webmaster of Everfalls (formerly The Loréan Library), where, since 2002, he has participated in a series of multimedia roleplaying projects with challenging philosophical, political and literary themes. He has logged over 30 months as a project director, and is now assisting with the novel adaptation of the recently-completed White Rose campaign.

Born in Rochester, New York in 1989, Michael has attended Victoria College in the University of Toronto, and will soon join the University of Rochester to complete his degree in international relations.

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