Jeremy Elson's Home Page
"And it's much the same thing with knowledge,
for whenever you learn something new,
the whole world becomes that much richer."
-- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by
Norton Juster in
The Phantom Tollbooth
What's in a home page?
I'm never sure exactly what I should have
on my home page. Every time I sit down to write something, I wonder
who will be looking at it and what they might want to know. I usually
spend some time looking at other people's pages, hoping to find one
that has a format I like; when I can't, I just throw up my hands and
decide to put off updating my home page until another day. (I guess
that's why it wasn't updated for 2 years.) Some people start off by
describing their current job; others talk about their research
interests; others describe their hobbies or spouses.
Somehow, jumping right in and talking about those things without any
introduction just doesn't seem right to me. I guess I'll just start
my home page with this bizarrely self-referential paragraph, instead.
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, you can read up on:
- My Life Story
(last updated 25 June 2003)
(Yes, updated - can you believe it?)
- General information about me.
- My Work
(last updated 25 June 2003)
- My professional life and research interests, jobs I've held, and
the somewhat-whimsical and now-defunct business
I co-founded.
- My Writings
(last updated 30 May 2003)
- Various things I've written over the years: both academic
(refereed papers, presentations), and not-so-academic (fiction, humor...).
- My Software
(last updated 1 August 2002)
- Never underestimate the importance of
free software! Free software makes the world a better place, and
I'd hate to live in a world without it. I try to make most of my
software available on the Internet -- if even a single person finds it
useful, then it was worth my time in releasing it.
- My Photo Album
(last updated 29 December 1999)
- Some pictures of me, family, and friends.
- My Contact Information and Travel Schedule
(last updated 22 November 2004)
- Different ways to reach me. Note the contrived grammatical
construct used to maintain consistency with the "My..." naming
paradigm.
- My Recent Updates
(last updated 19 January 2004)
- A list of recent changes to my web pages.
Jeremy Elson
Last updated22 October 2004