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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
