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My Public Persona

Being privacy-conscious, we’ll skip the usual part where I offer up gratuitous personal details. I’ve never thought personal web pages were a very good idea, and in these days of identity theft and phishing, I feel vindicated for having maintained that distinction since the beginning.

What you’ll find here is a description of my “public persona”. That means it’s heavily biased toward the things I’ve done professionally, along with various public writings I’ve done, mostly humor and politics. For a long time, I tried not to offer any pictures. But at this point, even if I didn’t, you could find any of a number of pictures of me through various search engines. So I finally decided I’d save you that trouble.

See also a recent interview of me done by a fellow Open Salon contributor.
The interview covers a variety of issues. It also has some recent photos of me.

Climate Change

But then again, for as much as I care about causes like privacy and civil liberties...

None of those issues will matter at all if we don’t solve the Climate Change problem.

Please take this matter seriously!

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.

Donations!

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.

Writing (Politics, Poetry, and more)

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
• Make a Donation
  It costs me time and money to maintain all of this. If you've received value from these pages and are looking for a way to support the effort, please click here.