I can most reliably be reached via email at james@fn.com.au. I have just completed a Ph.D. with the The Basser Department of Computer ScienceThe Persistent Systems Research group. The PSRG is working on a persistent operating system called Grasshopper. I started postgraduate life in Computer Modelling. My honours project was an implementation of Bernard Zeigler's DEVS in CLOS. Our department runs an implementation of the Plan 9 operating system from Bell Labs and I have have a lot of fun working with the system, notably a remote interface which may be run under X called 9x. Feel free to mail me if you run Plan 9 and are interested in such a beast.

Once you've wandered around and had a look at my pages, please sign my visitors' book.

My wife a very beautiful and intelligent woman named Julia and I'm very lucky. Julia is an Arts graduate and holds an honours thesis in contemporary Russian art and a diploma in museum studies (curatorship).

The preparations for our wedding didn't kill us first as per the comments which were previously here and suprisingly enough (to me at least) I must have purged my system of the tension and hassles leading up to the wedding and actually enjoyed myself immensely.

As you can see I am interested in calligraphy. I am also interested in palaeography, and (digital) typography, and am currently writing an outline font editor for Adobe Type 1 fonts called spif.

Oh, I write sometimes too.

I also have an interest in Unicode and its support under libXg, a port to X of the Plan 9 graphics system. To this end I have developed 9term, a Unicode aware terminal emulator which may be used as a replacement for xterm, a course of action I thoroughly recommend.

The WWW Cache Experiment

I wrote one of the first (in the first two or three, anyway) proxy caching systems for the Web. It was written in Perl and we ran it for several years. The cache keeps local copies of documents previously referenced to speed up subsequent access to the same documents. The code used to be available, however, NASA took it, used it for commercial purposes (despite my disclaimer), and then their lawyers claimed that since my intellectual property rights were so nebulous as to be non-existent, this was okay. Last I heard it was part of a project to go into 70000 U.S. schools. I figure NASA has to be getting something out of this but I've never seen a brass farthing of it. As a result the code is no longer available. Complain to NASA.

A Virtual Tour of My House

I am a Star Trek: TNG/DS9/VOY fan. You might like to check out my Star Trek page. It's a rather meagre effort on my part to collect together some Star Trek related material on the net and some pointers to other Star Trek resources.

Miscellenea or What I Did On My Holidays Several Years Ago

A while back we watched the end of the shuttle mission STS-57/Discovery.

How I waste my time...

I've also had The Borderline pointed out to me--another daily Internet cartoon.

Finger services

We used to run a specially modified finger daemon which I was responsible for modifying.