About This Site
Welcome to my dumping ground! Here you will find most of the stuff I will admit to creating for the Web, including:
- Ignorant, embarrassing, really long rants!
- Technical guides and resources that are probably out of date!
- Failed attempts at weblogs!
- The detritus of my disastrous grad school career!
- A set of filtered pages, which you probably should avoid!
- Whatever else I feel compelled to share with the world!
Because I update this site infrequently, the best way to keep updated is by subscribing to this website's internet feeds.
Work
I currently live in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. As of Aug 2024 I am unemployed.
Previously, I was employed as a Level 2 Computer Janitor at The Working Centre, which is a community development organization masquerading as an employment centre. I was also a sessional computer science lecturer at The University of Waterloo.
School
Educationally speaking, I attended:
- Afton Elementary School in Edmonton
- Havenwood Elementary School in Mississauga
- Ellengale Elementary and Queenston Elementary in Missisauga
- The Woodlands Secondary School in Mississauga
- The University of Toronto at Mississauga (neé Erindale College) in Mississauga
- The University of Waterloo
Volunteer
I have been involved with the following organizations and initiatives. Many of these associations are now defunct or peripheral.
- The KW Freeskool project: http://kwfreeskool.wordpress.com
- The University of Waterloo Community Garden
- The Waterloo Public Interest Research Group at the University of Waterloo.
- Fair Vote Canada, in particular during the 2007 Ontario Referendum on Electoral Reform.
- The Kitchener-Waterloo Linux User Group.
- The Nonprofit Sysadmin Group, aka NetSquared Kitchener-Waterloo: https://kwnpsa.ca
- Software Freedom Day in Kitchener-Waterloo: http://softwarefreedomday.org
- CivicTech Waterloo Region: https://civictechwr.org
Getting In Touch
If you have comments or would like to get in touch, feel free to contact me.
Mirrors
This site is currently hosted at:
The Neocities mirror does not include zipfiles or tarballs, as those are prohibited by Neocities.
The source code for the site (which does include zipfiles and tarballs) is at https://gitlab.com/pnijjar/ikisrc . The ikiwiki config files are at https://gitlab.com/pnijjar/ikiconf .
Site Content License
Unless otherwise specified, all of this content is copyright Paul Nijjar, with all rights reserved.
One exception to this is code and configuration snippets in my tag/tech section. Unless otherwise specified, those are in the public domain, so you can copy and use them without fear.
I understand that there are problems with this copyright, but it will have to do until I decide the best way to release this content.
I am pretty open to relicensing things and/or giving you permission to use this work in creative ways. Contact me if you are interested.
Site Creation Tools
The CMS for this website is Ikiwiki: http://www.ikiwiki.info
The current background is a heavily (and unattractively) processed derivative work of a beautiful photograph: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scotbot/9686457096/. This photo was generously released by Scott Wylie under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
The previous background was a screen clipping from the program Cynosure from the Xscreensaver package: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/ . Cynosure was written Stephen Linhart, Ozymandias G. Desiderata, and Jamie Zawinski.
The ugly theme has been customized by yours truly, using a purloined copy of Eric A. Meyer's excellent book Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 2nd. edition.