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My "dot Mac" home page, created with the dubious power of
Apple's Homepage Builder, is
to be found here. From there you can find
the web index of my Public Folder and some collections of photos. It's
not very exciting. But if you want to look at it, you go right ahead.
Um. This is me. Photo by Jodie Hunter.
Like a lot of other people I have nothing particularly interesting to say, and spend a bit of time now and then saying it in a blog. It's rather imaginatively called, "A Man And His Blog". And joy of joys, it's available as an RSS feed, so you can keep up to date with my ramblings using an RSS reader like NetNewsWire for Mac or FeedDemon for Windows.
Some essential Mac stuff: if you go on Safari, always wear your Pith Helmet so you don't get burnt. Spend too long on the Web as it is? Keep up with millions of news sites and blogs with NetNewswire; for the rest try OmniWeb 5. And if you find Apple's Terminal just too annoying, iTerm is more than capable of filling its shoes.
Mac OS X users should also try out the desktop Cray.
If you are now in need of some idle distraction, you can have a look at this rather funky JavaScript age calculator that someone sent me. (I think it was Ray. Hi, Ray!) Now you can find out how many seconds old you are, and how long it is until your next birthday - all thanks to your friend, The Internet.
Over the years I've written a collection of things for Mac OS X. Mostly simple things like scripts written in Perl, AppleScript and POSIX shell.
You can view the script sources online and download all my software over in the Software page.
Demonstrating a complete lack of ingenuity or artistic skill I made
a folder icon for applications from the
Omni Group - OmniWeb,
OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner being the ones I use a lot. The icon set is
available for you to download here: StuffIt (40k),
ICNS (68k) and PhotoShop
(96k) formats.
GPG (the GNU Privacy Guard) is a free, open source
program that can be used as a replacement for the "limited-capability version" of the PGP
program from the PGP Corporation. You can use GPG anywhere
and everywhere, thanks to its "freeness" (royalty-free, patent-free, etc).
If you use Mac OS X's Mail.app you should install
GPGMail
and install the MacGPG distribution of
GnuPG or the gnupg packages
from Fink. The "GPGKeys" and "GPGPreferences"
tools from MacGPG are particularly useful and I recommend them.
I'm trying to get back into the habit of signing my emails and making
my public key available for people in case they want to encrypt something
to send to me, or verify a signature that I've made.
Here is my public key, which you can copy and paste into the GPGKeys import window. You
can also download the key separately
(895F77EF.gpgkey and
895F77EF.xml).
Finally you can retrieve my key from the keyserver.net
facility by searching for my email address or for key ID 895F77EF.
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (Darwin)
mQGiBEAPYUgRBAD6mWKlF+aMCPkyyclxQ56JIs1v6ElPtG5bboFj329kPGjmzwEe
GpdlQN38W7MuItTm/OiKoXl39sku1AYxTO4RBnWD3dmvnnC9G0H0KhEeB1R/CYHl
xd/49NvJfz7iHM0dg0cCVLVKsAOJ8qB+4jBfqZyOD6NvcfaqA79cr2y9rwCgtOeB
f32ZlsAt4noJVX2sXt4koyMD/1g/p5PLCN8YPmNXf5mx2ttLtZKCg9rUNW4FvCjq
LcEbd95HeKEYSnQ5DnmozvWQqVACZSp6OlZcH8Ppn1x995AMNhsJFDDkgUWBy5+J
KvbIrjD/xRRyfjvsq/00YXFVKP62Wwrq4lfc2DrDMWgbMVwGw/ZqnVV3Ilw/A3JA
7YQDBAD3ENquVJobUjIbra+CsRPQXLyywK5JQJdCttppsHo72ZKPUxx3Vnj2DNjI
Yo6wSz9BhbcqoodI79igS+kElDk9jC/xgbn82nVbOa3Qjki9xfU3nyfsBFS/wp4O
7ZJiMsVrNisVMj3wsSVVjBMuQ+ii03iKiTHjREOkIJksRmMHWLQdQW5kcmV3IFNo
dWdnIDxhc2h1Z2dAbWFjLmNvbT6IYQQTEQIAIQUCQA9hSAUJA8JnAAYLCQgHAwID
FQIDAxYCAQIeAQIXgAAKCRC13Xp4iV937zAtAJ9EQe3crRgpD15CkB9xtUMtn/QC
RQCfRG1OpemuNUkGXbhvi+aKHrfdTbW5AQ0EQA9hWBAEANAe1J0PsajmOTeEHKnZ
HdDydmxbaLd7Lhl2XKA0KEql1W1ZXx7vDLzR0YJUCIlzw9XJMcypoCAI4KUGYjks
/Vr6ChC/yhAJrxHmrOepYxVk2ntikDucdX7CUUGzo5RKNQrIo1eZf6eDJFeOm4hO
PlgJwN2XUZ992I+/jXvcOnBfAAMFA/9BDpFfSnTmC2/shhw6To3mwSWlrIsaqS3E
cobropt+NslFeGvN+tQBxHl1WL3P5DHCbk/NqGnyH8+f0k6+e4y9MxTHZ+6xhNHF
ae6sfYLHAvDyBqOfFqK3OOX/Pt/XUdz3EjY45+/WUcfS2ny2GRB0bqLfhj56WQbi
XIAawGsBH4hMBBgRAgAMBQJAD2FYBQkDwmcAAAoJELXdeniJX3fv0LoAoKu/zpRd
JZzRym5n5yWST2OexYscAJ41as9EEvxguUZeBAgeUt++kVximw==
=xR1w
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Nah, don't do that. Boring.
(But if you feel you must, here's a v-card.)
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