Colophon

I don’t really know if I’m doing this “cor­rectly” (accord­ing to what­ever rules gov­ern the con­tent and/or for­mat­ting of a colophon), but I fig­ured this will be a good sub­sti­tute for my cur­rent con­tact page, which is hard to use and lack­ing in any­thing beyond basic data.

Some dis­claimers: I am by no means a graphic designer or pro­fes­sional writer. I make no claims to know what I’m doing here, and no-one should really fol­low my advice with­out fully under­stand­ing what any­thing I say actu­ally does and/or means. While I may com­plain about my work or pro­fes­sional life from time to time, this site has no con­nec­tion to the busi­ness I work for. There is not a sin­gle bit of data here that should be con­strued as being endorsed by, implied by, or in any way con­nected to my employer. Not that I’d ever say any­thing like that, but given the atti­tude of lit­i­ga­tors these days things of this nature must be said.

About the author

Paul Leonard was born a while ago (thirty-something years at last count) in Arling­ton, Texas, and put up with it for a lit­tle over eigh­teen years before mov­ing to Austin, Texas (pur­port­edly to go to col­lege). He lives with his beau­ti­ful wife in a semi-decent apart­ment in the south­east of the city, and usu­ally enjoys his job as net­work admin­is­tra­tor of a call cen­ter that (among other things) pro­vides tech­ni­cal sup­port for ISPs across the US. If any­one should want to con­tact him, his email address is hope­fully not all over the place (because, like every­one else, he hates get­ting junk email) but is avail­able nonethe­less in places like whois records (or “firstname@thisdomain.org”). He also tends to mix verb tenses and per­sons when writ­ing web pages.

Code and Typography

Every­thing is writ­ten in XHTML because it’s easy for Word­Press to gen­er­ate the code that way. I could prob­a­bly make up a nice rea­son that sounds good, but I felt it nec­es­sary to be hon­est. I had pre­vi­ously gone to the trou­ble of using hand-made CSS for the lay­out of the page, but switched to K2 long ago, and just recently decided to start exper­i­ment with dif­fer­ent themes again. Cur­rent theme infor­ma­tion should be in the page footer below, for those curi­ous enough to look for it.

Pro­duc­tion

This site has been pro­duced from many dif­fer­ent plat­forms, includ­ing OS X 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5 (Pan­ther, Tiger, and Leop­ard, for those who use the names), Win­dows 2000 and Win­dows XP (but not Vista, because I don’t have it on any com­puter to which I have reg­u­lar access), so many fla­vors of Linux I’ve lost count (although pri­mar­ily Debian). I’ve posted entries using Fire­fox, Camino, Safari, and Inter­net Explorer, although I pre­fer using ecto the most (I actu­ally paid for it, it was so good). The pages are ren­dered by Word­Press. I gen­er­ally have the newest ver­sion of Word­Press, although some­times I do miss the release notices for a few weeks. What few images there are on the site used to be cre­ated in Pho­to­shop, but I scored a copy of Pix­el­ma­tor a while back, and use that instead.
Host­ing: I got a good deal on host­ing from DreamHost.  You can too; just use Refer­ral code DEVLOGIC123 for $25 off a 1-year subscription!

Copy­right

All con­tent, except where oth­er­wise spec­i­fied or noted, is © 2000 — 2009+ Paul Leonard (that’s me), and I reserve unto myself all rights avail­able under the law. Feel free to link to any con­tent you wish to ref­er­ence (it’s what the web was designed for), but please leave it on my server. Any com­ments you may post (when I actu­ally turn on com­ments, which is rare) retain what­ever copy­right you choose to give them.

Pri­vacy Policy

I will not sell, loan, lease, or in any way accept or be given com­pen­sa­tion for anyone’s per­sonal infor­ma­tion pro­vided on this site, includ­ing (but not lim­ited to) email addresses, IP addresses, or browser sta­tis­tics. I also won’t give personally-identifiable infor­ma­tion away for free (unless I’m com­pelled to do so for legal rea­sons). If I’ve con­fig­ured the site cor­rectly, your email address won’t be any­where on the site unless you put it in the text of your com­ment. I reserve the right to delete any com­ments I don’t like, or mod­ify long URLs to fit in with the site lay­out, but aside from that out­right dele­tion I will never edit the con­tent of any com­ments on the site unless I am requested to do so by the poster. My own con­tent, how­ever, is fair game for my capri­cious edits when­ever I feel like it.

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