Nice, readable font, suitable for all your 6x13 bitmap font needs. I've found some instructions for installing fonts under X (another link) that you may find useful.

Smaller but slightly less nice and readable sibling of "smooth". This one is 5x10. It was extremely handy on my laptop, which had a screen that could only do 640x480.

A quick little skin that I made for the Xine media player. Constructed in The Gimp using difference clouds, noise, and blurring.

A popular theme that I made quite a while back for the Enlightenment window manager. <boast>over 200,000 downloads from themes.org</boast> There was a Slashdot story a while ago about this theme showing up on a random UPN television show. Here's a mirror of the page with screen captures, in case the original goes away at some point. The creators of the show didn't even bother to let me know about it. Hooray for the GPL.

A theme for the Eterm terminal emulator that matches the BlueSteel Enlightenment theme.

A theme for the GKrellM system utilization monitor that matches the BlueSteel Enlightenment theme.

Ruby has quickly become my favorite programming language. I have a lot to learn still, but here are a couple of bits of software that I've written.

This is a little OpenGL application that I used to run on a small PC that was hooked up to my stereo and television. Here's the bulletted feature list:

• plays MP3s and IT/S3M/MOD/XM modules using the extremely fast and easy-to-use FMOD library
• plays arcade, NES, SNES, and Genesis games using a variety of emulators
• reads M3U playlists and ID3v1 tags
• whiz-bang graphical effects (translucent zooming text, neat water-rippling effect on backgrounds, text flying all over the place on the music player screen, things flashing in time to the music, etc.)
• joypad support
• themable
• infrared transmitter support

This was originally a quick-and-dirty program that I banged out for personal use, but I've cleaned it up to the point where it will hopefully work on other people's computers as well. The screenshots below are kind of old but are mostly still accurate.

Here are a couple of scripts that may be useful if you're using Highwind Software's Typhoon Usenet server. radius_auth.pl is an authentication wrapper that lets Typhoon check users against a RADIUS server. sync_active.pl is a cheesy script that downloads the list of newsgroups from ISC's FTP site and brings the server's active file into sync with it (parsing control messages is a better route to take, though).

This is a little C program that parses zone files used by the BIND DNS server and spits out their content in the native format of the tinydns component of Dan Bernstein's djbdns DNS server. It should be pretty fast (it does a single pass of each entry and doesn't dynamically allocate any memory). It makes more of an effort to mimic BIND's behavior than other programs and libraries that I've seen that parse zone files.

Galeon's a nifty GNOME web browser based upon the excellent HTML layout engine from Mozilla. It has an simple, uncluttered interface and offers many useful features such as tabbed browsing and gesture support (okay, those aren't so distinguishing now, but they were a big deal back then). I was active in its development while in college and in my then-jobless state shortly after graduating, but I haven't contributed to the project since then.

Here are some little applets that I wrote a number of years ago. They should work with Enlightenment 0.16, I think. E-Flame is a nice-looking system use monitor, E-Mount lets you mount and unmount drives, and E-Netgraph graphs network utilization. I don't have any screenshots lying around, unfortunately.

Here's my PGP/GPG public key.

My boring little life.

Comfort food from my youth, mainly here in case I'm at the store and don't know what I need to buy.

How to do stuff.

I regularly scrape a couple of websites and syndicate their updates as RSS feeds, suitable for perusal in feed aggregators such as Google Reader (my personal favorite) or Bloglines.

If you use XFree86 on a Unix system and are interested in learning to use the Dvorak keyboard layout, these will probably come in handy.

This is the cheesiest video game dialog that I've ever heard, and the only reason that I played through the game. Please let me know if you have any information about these (presumably Canadian) voice actors, beyond the first-name credits on IMDB. I can't understand why they wouldn't want full credit for their work.

Here are brief (thirty second to one minute) MP3 samples of some of the artists whose music I like to listen to (mostly IDM, fusion, and rock). If you hear something that you like, you can probably get a pretty good deal on a used copy of the corresponding album from half.ebay.com (all of the good parts of eBay and none of the bad). Failing that, the Public Radio Music Source sells a lot of stuff that I wasn't able to find at the major online retailers. Failing that, I've had success ordering electronic music from Strange Fortune, Boomkat, echolocation, Forced Exposure, and Ad Noiseam.