Simon Slavin's Homepage

I am Simon Slavin, who once traded as Thread Software but I'm now more interested in Big Fraud. My web site is http://www.bigfraud.org/ and my email address is now slavi ns@.bi_gfraud.o rg without any spaces or underlines.

Technical stuff

• Information about geoloc, a proposed geolocation URI scheme which allows people to cite locations (e.g. GPS coordinates) simply and quickly in any application that understands URIs like 'http:' and 'mailto:'. Includes a demonstration handler for Mac OS X.
• A review of my robotic vacuum-cleaner.

Non-technical stuff

I host a site pages for Masumi Timson, talented Koto and Shamisen player.

Film track-lists

I really like a couple of films which have a ton of music tracks in the background. Although you can find a list of the tracks in the credits it can be difficult to answer the question "What did they start playing when we saw Katie dusting the bannisters ?". Here are my answers questions like those for ...

• Empire Records
• School of Rock

Heinlein-related stuff:

• I started off and maintained for a while the list of people who attended the colloquium mentioned in L'Envoi, the last chapter of Robert A. Heinlein's The Number of the Beast. Francesco Spreafico took it over for a while but it's now taken care of by Carlos Angelo and can be found here.
• A Heinlein quiz: match the beginnings and endings of Heinlein stories.

Personal stuff

If you don't understand what I'm talking about at any time, itmight help if you read

• Eric S. Raymond's: Jargon File a.k.a. The Hacker's Dictionary
• Douglas R. Hofstadter's: Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
• Robert M. Pirsig's: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Something about The Goon Show (a BBC radio comedy series of the 1950s)
• alt.folklore.computers
• Addison-Wesley's Inside Macintosh series
• some books by Robert A. Heinlein

My email address is nearly, but not quite,slavins@bigfraud.NOJUNK.org.