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My Public PersonaI've been privacy-conscious for many years, perhaps owing in part to a bad experience I had in the days of the early ARPANET, in which someone abused a piece of personal data I'd left online. Later, when the web came online, I held back as many others rushed to place every detail about themselves, their homes, and their families into the public view. With identity theft and phishing so common these days, I’m glad I’ve been shy. Still, one can't live in the modern world without online connections. So I've tried to strike a balance. I think of my web site as revealing my “public persona.” When considering whether I might want to put something on the web, I ask myself if it is a proper part of my public persona, or whether they should be retained instead as part of my private persona. People differ in where they draw the line on this, but It's a thought exercise I think everyone should go through.
What you'll find here are records of
my publicly visible projects and my achievements,
as well as a repository of
my public writings. If you find something missing,
drop me a line and strike up a personal conversation.
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Donate!
Please consider donating! It costs me time and money to maintain all of this, and the effort does not break even. (If it ever does, I'll be sure to mention it.) If you can't afford to use this site other than for free, don't feel guilty. We've all been there. But it wouldn't take very many people making contributions of even $5 or $10 dollars to substantially reduce the burden on me. In reality, there have been only about a half dozen contributions at all after a number of years. (I'm very grateful to the few who have chipped in, but I could never have paid for the resources my various sites consume or the time it took me to make them if I had to rely on donations.) So if you've received value from these pages or my writings elsewhere and are looking for a way to say thanks or support the effort, please click here.
Climate Change
I care a lot about causes like privacy and civil liberties. But none of those issues will matter at all if we don’t solve the Climate Change problem. Please take this matter seriously!
Here are some of my essays on the topic:
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I’ve been trying to keep my Climate Change page
regularly updated with recent news. I don't have it on an RSS feed right now, but please
feel free to bookmark it and to visit it when you want an easy reference to recent science and political news
on the subject. If there's something you'd like me to be tracking, please send me e-mail.
Writing (Politics, Poetry, and more)
I began a regular monthly column going at Does This Make Sense.com. No, I haven't stopped posting at Open Salon, but I figure it doesn't hurt to diversify a little.
NOTE: Don't be surprised if the DoesThisMakeSense.com site disappears for a while, though, to return in different form. Not sure when that's to happen, but probably soon. More on that as it develops.
Recent articles by me at DoesThisMakeSense.com:
I've got a blog on Open Salon if you want to read more thoughts by me or join in the discussion.
Here are a few other featured items:
Technical Topics and Other Points of Interest
Here are some possible topics of interest:
- Kent’s Publications
(technical literature
and fiction)
The Revised Maclisp Manual was published to the web in late 2007. - Miscellaneous postings
An index of interviews with me in books, online magazines, discussion forums, etc. e.g., Slashdot.org, Salon Magazine’s Table Talk forum, and The CPSR Newsletter. Some of these are available in alternate languages, as well (German or Turkish, for example.) - Kent’s “Personal FAQ” (i.e., “PFAQ”), a sort of proto-blog.
- HyperMeta, Inc. (and a short bio of Kent’s professional work)
- Kent’s Web Projects (various web sites that I’m working on, not all complete)
- Kent’s Endorsements (web things of special importance)
- The US Government (resources related to law and government)
- Kent Pitman’s “Thinking Aloud about Politics”
An occasional forum for me to post various political thoughts.
Most recent update (12 Jul 2008): Climate Change Coming “Faster Than Expected”
In the recent past, I've been writing a blog at Open Salon. - Nancy's Space
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