I've been told that I should put a link to my web log right at the top of my page, so that people see it immediately.
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If not, carry on reading this, my new-shiny-and-improved home page. If you can't face reading through all the prose to find the links you want, try the site map.
In order to satisfy my thousands of demanding fans, I have finally bowed to the inevitable and put up on my website a photograph containing myself. However, you will have to guess which one of the people in the photograph is me (clue: I do not have red hair). Also note that this photograph was taken some considerable time ago. (Thanks to James Fairbairn for the picture. You may also wish to look at a note about photographs.)
The picture on the left shows an untidy desk.
And no, I don't mean The Newspaper. Here are some short stories I've written over the years.
Some books I can recommend.
Or, subverting capitalism by taking the piss out of objectivists.
I'm at a loss to imagine why you might want any of this stuff, but people sometimes do. It's mostly perl scripts and quite command-line oriented (but that's a good thing, really). There's also tpop3d, the extensible POP server with the unimaginitive name and frightening variety of file-locking options; vmail-sql, a way to combine the 1960s horror of Internet SMTP email with the 1970s horror of relational databases; xdata, which complicates shell scripting by introducing it to DBM databases; driftnet, an automated invasion of privacy; and the quotes which get appended to my emails (and if you're interested in those, you should instead see Am I Sig Or Not?).
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