Sarah's Spot

Welcome to my little place on the web.

Personal Blog

Possibly the only regularly updated part of this site is my personal blog, run by a nifty set of shellscripts called "nanoblogger".

Digial Rights

See the EFF web site for more information about your rights on the internet.

Free Software

See www.gnu.org for lots of information about free software. Software that I write that isn't for work, I usually release under GNU's GPL. My work web page has (probably out of date) information about software I've written for work, but that generally isn't free.

Stuff I've Written

I must of course mention my first venture into commercial writing, a web site called "Developing Programmers .com".

Here are some of the nonwork things I've written.

• A memory debugging library, not unlike "Electric Fence" but doesn't require memmap(). [Download] -- GPL
• An online user manual for jpilot-Mail [View] -- FDL
• Trivial documentation generators for C and Fortran. Kinda like Javadoc/Doxygen but optimized for non-heirarchical languages. [Sourceforge Page] -- GPL
• WebGen, a simple web site generator / content management system. [About] -- GPL
• SarahServ: A simple web server that takes the "CIA" of security (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) and prioritises them strongly as "ICA", so if something odd is going on it'll happily shut itself down. I use this on my web server at work but it was written just for myself.
• Delv2: Development Environment and Language for adVentures. This started out being a games platform back when I was dual booting DOS and linux. So it ended up with its own preemptively multitasking kernerl, file system, memory management, shell, gcc-backend, dynamically loadable shared library system, etc. An ambitious project that ended up being "most of an operating system" and is near enough to dead now because I went and got a life. Version 1 of this project was less of an operating system so it got to be a vaguely working graphic adventure game.
• xSaSp: A nice replacement for a MIPS CPU emulator called "SPIM". I was gonna sell it to the uni some time but last I heard they were thinking of moving away from using SPIM anyway.
• Tokyo Press: A Japanese word processor and a few Japanese educational games, for DOS.
• 3J: A replacement for some very very old driveline analysis software. Used in designing parts of cars and trucks and stuff. It helped with workign out optimal placements and rotations for universal joints. DOS based, I believe its due to get replaced with a Windows version now.

Animation

I have an interest in animation. I watch a lot of anime and was very keen to see the Animatrix DVD.

I also paint "cel art", single animation cels painted by hand to produce something I can hang on the wall. Here are some that I've done. They are all based on scenes from Disney movies, however I did the drawing and painting myself.

I have started work on a short animated featurette called "Immortality's Wage", based on a short story by Andrew Lee. It will be a while before I have much to show for that however, as animations ta ke a lot longer to make than individual cels.