About this page and its author

My PGP public keys (not that anyone ever uses them): a DSS/Diffie-Hellman or an RSA key.

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I used the following tools to create this site:

Editpad Lite, a postcardware text editor;
Horizon Web Text, an excellent shareware HTML editor;
HTML Tidy, a very useful free tool for cleaning up code;
The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) (X)HTML and CSS Validation Services; and
Opera 5.0, my stable, speedy, and standards-compliant browser of choice—and now it's free, too. What are you waiting for?

I see no point in putting up a public web site if it's unreadable to some. To that end, this site uses XHTML 1.0 for markup and CSS for layout. (The CSS color scheme is adapted from the W3C Core Styles, specifically the "Oldstyle" style sheet.) The site will look nicer in a browser that complies with web standards (here's a list of browsers you might upgrade to), but should degrade gracefully and display its content in any browser. For more information, see the Viewable with Any Browser Campaign and the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative, particularly its handy checklist.

I referred with varying degrees of frequency to the following: