geeky-boy.com

by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Auth.
Tony kindly gave his permission for me to display it.

I don't do much with my web site any more. See my blog for more. This site's master source files are at https://github.com/fordsfords/fordsfords.github.io.

My Content

• Standard Disclaimer - If I've fooled you into thinking that I know what I'm talking about, or if you are tempted to assume that I am representing the company I work for, you had better read my standard disclaimer.
  
  
• Blog - My personal blog.
  
  
• Astronomy - I like to star-gaze. Among other things, I wrote a parent's guide to buying a child a telescope.
  
  
• The Continuing Adventures of Borris, the Amazing Talking Dog - My sense of humor.
  
  
• My Rosetta Stone - how to do the same thing in a variety of different languages.
  
  
• Wiki My GitHub wiki.
  
  
• Wiki dump - A dump of my old pre-GitHub wiki. Not sure there is much in there of interest to a general audience.
  
  
• My Stories - I'm not in line to win any Pulitzers.
  
  
• Other social media - Please don't use my FaceBook page or my Twitter feed. I generally accept friend requests on FaceBook from people I know, but I never post anything and I never log in an read other people's postings. Ditto with Twitter. In spite of the risks, I just don't have time.

My Software

• q module (queue) - software package (in C) which implements a fast, lock-free, non-blocking queue.
  
  
• BBST (BBS Thingie) - software package (in Perl) which implements "bbs_thingie" message board.
  
  
• SEMLIT (Semi-Literate documentation) - software package to produce detailed source code documentation.

My Email

I don't like email very much, and I've got a pretty full life these days. The astronomy and iguana pages are very old and out of date, and I have no particular desire to update them. If you have a quick and easy question, there's a good chance I'll respond within a week or two, but don't get your hopes up too high.

If, after reading that, you still want to email me, my email domain is geeky-boy.com and my email account on that domain is sford. I wrote it out that way so that email address harvesters wouldn't find it. (Not that it helps much - I get plenty of spam as it is.)