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These pages are the product of Brian Chandler's fevered imagination, except for the bits which are the product of the fevered imagination of other members of the Chandler family. And perhaps something else. Anyway, any opinions expressed are in general mine alone, and any errors are my responsibility. All rights, lefts, and centres are reserved.
Naturally, I welcome any comments on anything you see here. Please put your email in the letterbox on the front door.
Copyright and stuffAll contents of this website are copyright © Brian Chandler 1999. (Except any bits that aren't.) However, I explicitly permit, nay encourage you to do anything you like with it, except attempt to extract money from someone else for passing bits on, provided you make appropriate acknowledgement. In particular, you may (of course) copy this stuff (that's how it gets from the server to your browser), store it in an information retrieval system (it already has been), or modify it for use in your own ideas (that's how we got music, art, and mathematics, to mention just three). I could write an essay about the shortcomings of the current "intellectual property rights" mindset, but it probably wouldn't be particularly interesting. Here's one that has already been rather well written by Eben Moglen: "Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright."
AcknowledgementsGosh, I started writing "Aristotle, Plato, ..." and realised it's hopeless. I'm grateful to everyone who's ever helped me. In particular a couple of friends led the way, and enabled me to copy them (Norman "Green Gables" Havens and Peter Evans), but several other friends on the PandA mailing list also helped. I have tried to add links to the sources of all sorts of material where they occur, and the next section lists some of the software in particular that I have used. No thanks to: er, Bill Gates and Micro$haft. With Uncle Bill's vision this would be coming to you on a CD-ROM, at considerable expense (yours); it would have been written by a Micro$erf hack, and you would have no chance at all of pointing out the errors and other maddening "features". (And HTML would probably look like MS-Word, so there would be obsolete page numbers like chicken droppings at the bottom.)
How it's put togetherWell, it's HTML, isn't it? I type it in with a text editor (NoteTab Std). More accurately, in the traditions of programming, I avoid typing anything from scratch, but copy the existing program that looks most amenable to bending into shape.For pictures I use PaintShopPro plus some utitilies:
* Isn't it silly that the "Help - About" menu item on software doesn't give you a handy snippet of text, including link to the creators' website, so you can easily acknowledge them, and point other possible customers their way. No, I suppose marketing doesn't work that way. Anyway, Sausage Software gave no obvious indication of a web address or anything, just a twee "Email a friend" button. So I clicked, filled in the boxes in the obvious way, and look what arrived in my Email... Hello fred, Ah, and the relentlessly reoccurring typeface? It's called "Brookhouse" and came on a CD-ROM of fonts with no discernable author. It's a copy of a design from the Bauhaus (Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin, 1919-1933). I like it!
Other things you might like to know: Where is Sano? - What's the weather like now? - Can you see Mount Fuji? |
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