About Me

Here's a pretty succinct summary of me (decode this)

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If you noticed my PGP+(+++) status, you might be interested in my PGP public key ID: 208C2410

I've used the IRC nick ““sinewalker”” since about 1995. It had a meaning at one point, but I've forgotten it. Since it's fairly unique (I know of no-one else using it), it's my default handle everywhere on the Net now.

I'm a little eccentric. I prefer Dvorak keyboards to QWERTY, which confounds my work colleagues no end :-).

About this blog

This is a place for me to keep notes on things (err, all sorts of stuff that interests me), or little projects that I pretend to work on at times.

Why do I write here?

Four reasons:

1. I like to keep notes on how things work, for my own reference
   (sort of like a linear log)
   
2. I like helping others in some strange way
   
3. I have too many accounts all over the web with little comments etc., and I'd like to collect them all into one place
   
4. Playing with XHTML (though I'm beginning to notice that Blogger, while easy to use, can be a bit too ““helpful”” at times, especially with character classes, and it tends to make messy code…)
   

How to find topics/ideas I've posted

I've catagorised many of my posts and tagged them in a special del.icio.us account. You can find stuff in this blog in a few different ways:

• View the list of Categories on the right-hand side-bar. This groups the blog's postings by topic in order from most posts to fewest posts (with the number of posts in parentheses). Click any category for a list of all posts in this blog tagged with that topic
• You can see all post Categories by clicking the Categories heading in the right-hand side-bar. This takes you directly to the master categories list
• Each vaguely interesting post (including this one) finishes with the text “Filed in: blah blag whatever””. If you found the post interesting or helpful (?!) then you can see other posts on the same subject by clicking on one of the subjects that the post was filed in
  
• You can also just browse through previous posts using the Blogger Previous Posts and Archives sections of the side-bar
  

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