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Who is Marc Ozon? I am a resident of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, under the supervision of Calvin Normore. My dissertation is about the role of mental language in theories of human knowledge in the early 14th century. (Yes, I've been at it a while, but I'm just about done.) Previously, I received a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Philosophy from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and a Master of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. I am originally from Newfoundland.

While working on my dissertation, I am also working as a computer systems administrator and consultant. At my main job, I manage a network, which includes workstations of various kinds and public access computers, plus a few servers; I also do some web design there, and manage two mailing lists.

I am Linux User no. 242390.

Contact

The send me a message link in the adjacent paragraph may or may not work properly in your browser; it requires JavaScript to be enabled. Why? In an attempt to avoid spam, I obfuscate my address, using techniques learned at Hivelogic and gazingus.org.

To contact me, just send me a message.

If you prefer to communicate using a medium other than e-mail, feel free to ask for other contact information (phone, surface mail, IM), but since I prefer not to post this information on my web pages, please communicate first using e-mail; it's generally the most efficient way to contact me, anyway.

If you use GnuPG or PGP (as I encourage you to do), my public key is available as marcozon.asc, or on one of the usual keyservers (either by searching with your key manager, using ldap (such as ldap://keyserver.pgp.com/), or using the web). I'll also be glad to send you my public key, or verify the key fingerprint; just ask.

Technicalities

These pages conform to the XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2 standards (with a little bit of CSS 3), which are set by the W3C. As such, the content of these pages should be available to any browser or internet device; if your browser does not support standards, you may not see the page as intended.

All software used in development and maintenance of this site is free software and open source software.

These pages are maintained entirely by hand, using vim and WPP. All image editing is now done with The GIMP. Just about all development takes place using the GNU/Linux operating system (Debian and Gentoo). Occasional bits are also done in MacOS X. Most testing is done with Mozilla (or Firebird), since browsers that use Gecko are the most standards-compliant browsers available; thus, I use their output as a benchmark. I'm also happy to test with Safari.

Note to users of Internet Explorer 6: This site does not support the use of Smart Tags or the Image Toolbar. On Smart Tags, see this excellent article by Chris Kaminski. As for the Image Toolbar, it doesn't make sense to make it easier to duplicate images (the essential function of that toolbar) that are copyrighted. Both of these features have been disabled on this site using Microsoft-specified HTML <meta> tags.

I took all photos and created all images on this site. These images are copyright (see below) for more information), mainly because I haven't yet decided whether or not to allow their use under a specific license. Images are in PNG and JPEG formats. Some of the PNG images have alpha-channel tranparency; most browsers support this, with the notable exception of Internet Explorer on Windows — a baffling omission, given that PNG has been a recommended standard since mid-1996. Thanks to some JavaScript from youngpup.net, my PNGs may be rendered properly by IE/Win, but I make no guarantees.

The image of the evergreen seedling used on this site was generated using the IFS-Compose plugin in The GIMP, after being inspired by Tigert's page and Owen Taylor's tutorial.

The phrase The Jumping-off Place seemed appropriate for a page of links; I think I first read the phrase in Robertson Davies' What's Bred in the Bone.

The fine print.

Disclaimer

This site is maintained independently by Marc Ozon, who is wholly responsible for its content. Any views expressed on these pages are mine at the time of writing. Views expressed on any pages linked on this site are not necessarily my own, are not necessarily endorsed by me, and are the responsibility of their particular authors; similarly, any products linked on this site are not necessarily endorsed by me.

Satire

Objects in your browser may be closer than they appear. This site has been encrypted with rot-26 cryptography; attempting to circumvent this encoding is probably illegal under the DMCA. Void where prohibited. Close cover before striking. Any resemblance to the other (similarly named but entirely different) ozone is purely coincidental.

Any material cited or linked on this site that is already under copyright remains the possession of its rightful owner. Otherwise, content (information and images) on this site are Copyright © 2004 Marc Ozon. Exceptions: certain code, which has been taken or adapted from other sources, inherit the license or copyright of their sources. Credit is given where it's due; please view source for information about this content.

Thanks

As the pages on this site have evolved, many people have provided feedback, comments, and help. You're all too numerous to mention, but I am particularly grateful to Kevin Dancy, Marc Trottier, and Andreas Warburton, for their ongoing comments over the years.

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