There is little here of “general interest,” just stuff that is specific to my particular interests (which can also be considered peculiar; it’s all a bit nerdy) and those few in the world that share them. My favorite code snippets from my personal wiki are the bulk of the content here; I post them in the hopes that they will help someone out of similar jams I have found myself in, and found other documentation on the Web lacking for whatever reason. There is also my resume and some obligatory legal jargon. Below is a copy of my usual avatar for the online forums I frequent to varying degrees and elsewhere a picture of a shoe. The shoe is important.
I used to have a blog about my programming work and whatnot with the occasional personal bit thrown in, and it is those entries that comprise the bulk of my Google Analytics numbers, both old and new given the various versions of this site that have existed, but I took it down simply because of an almost complete lack of time. As much as I enjoy writing as an outlet—I’ve tried to jumpstart myself a couple of times since the first one—I just don’t have the time to write in such a way that my work is good enough for general consumption. Relinking to my other activities on the web turned out to be a tedious task, if not pointless since I thought it came across as just showing off with little to show for it. Besides, some of the stuff in the old blog was a bit caustic, thus a bit embarrassing in retrospect, and also becoming irrelevant due to changes in technology and interests.
Anyone is welcome to contact me (an email address is casually hidden in the Legal page) with comments and questions, but I can’t promise a response because, because that goes back to the point about blogging. I have a hard enough time carving out the time to get those things done that I have to get done much less the things I would like to get done, which aren’t always the same.
Cheers
Philip
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