tech notes, acknowledgements, etc.



This web site was created with the aid of the following free software for which I am very grateful:
  • gcc
  • Ghostscript
  • Linux, various GNU utilities, the X Window system
  • [others]

Free software rocks.

To help minimize its annoyance level, this web site has no
  • animated graphics or blinking text
  • sound
  • advertising
  • pages that say nothing more than "under construction"


best viewed with any browser you want
"Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network."
  -Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996


"There is no English word with all the vowels in alphabetical order," said Tom facetiously.

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Tom Ace

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