
I've written quite a few articles and essays which are found in several places around the web. This page serves to index them all in one place.
Some articles are found in more than one place, possibly with somewhat different content.
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You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time -- Abraham Lincoln
If we submitted users to the queue, and weighing up their good and bad points, their worth as human beings, their history of being insightful, well, I'd vote +1FP straight away on MichealCrawford. -- Scrymarch
Michael, you should know that you are one of my heroes. Your talent, struggles, mistakes, and victories inspire me. -- saodl
I've said it before but i'll say it again: you're an egomaniac. -- Friedrich Dionysus
You, I'm afraid, are painfully dull. Your writing can be extremely tedious and ranting -- eejit
I left my wife behind in Atlantic Canada so I could find work on the West Coast.
Ogg Frog is my new website devoted to digital music. Guess who Rippit the Ogg Frog is?
GoingWare Inc. is my software consulting company. I've been self-employed since April 1998. At first all my articles had to do with programming or the software business, but now I write about all kinds of stuff.
Not Any More! I just started work as a permanent employee of an industrial control systems software publisher near Halifax, Nova Scotia. On the one hand, I don't get to work in my pajamas anymore, but on the other, there are more people to talk to at the office than my cat and two beagles.
When I first joined Kuro5hin, I signed up as user GoingWare. Later I changed my account to MichaelCrawford.
I first signed up with Advogato as user goingware but then changed my account to MichaelCrawford. I keep my main weblog at Advogato.
Flaming as an art form.
ZooLib is an Open Source C++ cross-platform application framework that was developed by my friend Andrew Green. I think it's the best thing since sliced bread.
I started out as user goingware but now I am user MichaelCrawford.
Coming soon. The site got h4x0r3d, then I left the old domain lapse when money got tight. It's since been picked up by a domain speculator.
Dead-tree publications. Most of these aren't available on the web, but you might find them in a university library.