This is my personal Web site, which contains personal and professional information about me, technical guides on GNU/Linux and UNIX, and essays on computing ethics and freedom.

About Me

I am:

• A hacker (that is, a playful tinkerer interested in exploring the limits of technology).
• A knowledgeable user of GNU/Linux.
• A competent software author.
• A fan of freely- and semi-freely-licensed heavy metal and rock music.
• A student in the 2012 Google Summer of Code program working with the Debian Project.
• The leader of a project to develop a fully-free embedded operating system distribution.
• A recent university graduate with a degree in computer science.
• A self-taught student of U.S. and international copyright law and free software licensing.
• The former leader of my university's undergraduate GNU/Linux special interest group.
• Trained in karate.
• Licensed to operate motorboats.
• Certified for open water SCUBA diving.

New

• A presentation on the disputed legal validity of software contracts.
• A workshop on the UNIX shell I gave at NJIT.

To Come

• More essays on computing ethics and freedom.
• Technical guides on GNU/Linux, especially one related to the boot process (an apparently popular topic with which I'm quite familiar).