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Highlights:

Links to articles I've written, and a summary of the technical editing I've done.
The traditional resumes, in several formats.
I use the Jed Editor, and host the jed-users-l email list, and its archive.

What I've done lately

I continue to follow Unix operating system affairs, with a focus on NetBSD, and Debian and Red Hat Linux. Of particular interest are:

Structured Document Preparation Systems
Content Management Systems

NOAA Coastwatch

Throughout most of the year 2003 I worked under a series of contracts from the Narragansett, Rhode Island office of NOAA Coastwatch, doing website design and system administration.

The project work was documented in a "User's Manual", provided in HTML and PDF formats.

Webdesign

The website of the "Northeast Node" of NOAA Coastwatch was overhauled "from scratch," with emphases on:

Accessibility and Standards Compliance.
Easily extensible by non-Web professionals.
Simplicity: Less Is More
Honoring the New England Maritime Ethos and Locale. (See also: http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/history/photos.html)

System administration

Coastwatch Northeast Node maintained a web presence via two servers, one running an older version of Red Hat Linux, and the other, SGI Irix.

Both machines needed a fair amount of work to bring them up to an "in sync" condition relative to their respective vendors' bugfixes and security patches.
All of the web serving chores were moved to the Linux box, and the Irix was configured to provide, as much as it could, some redundancy for this function.
Both machines had their network connectivity honed down to the lowest possible degree, and firewall software was installed and configured on the Linux machine.
Currently a proposal is in development to replace and revamp the Linux server.

What I'm doing currently.

As noted, I remain interested in structured document preparation, and content management systems.

For most documentation purposes I find that DebianDoc, rendered into PDF formatted output, is a suitable solution, a blending of convenience in composition, and elegance in appearance. (Ask me for a sample!)

*Systems I am fluent in include:*
Structured Document Preparation:	Content Management Systems:
DocBook:	Portals:
SGML	Scoop
XML	Plone
Website	WebLogs:
DebianDoc	Movable Type
LaTeX:	Pyblosxom
LaTeX2HTML	CoreBlog
Lyx	SimpleBlog
Auctex
Zope BackTalk
AFT
Emacs/PSGML

My personal favorites in the Content Management category are Plone, and Movable Type.

What I'd like to do in the future.

I love working with systems that provide easy access to, and efficient delivery of, documents that number among their principal virtues simplicity of presentation and intuition-near navigation. Let's keep the medium out of the way of the message. A prime result of this orientation: the quality of the messages improves.

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