Bill McClain's Home Page

Last updated: December 15, 2016

Sattre Press

I own Sattre Press, a book publishing company. I do the book design, typesetting, web design, programming, selling, shipping and everything else except the printing and binding.

Here is an essay giving the details of how I got started.

Online Books

As part of my work with Sattre Press, I am putting some public domain titles on the web for free. They are listed on The Online Books Page and have been contributed to Project Gutenberg.

Available now:

• Pagan Papers, by Kenneth Grahame
• Tales of War, by Lord Dunsany
• Curiosities of the Sky, by Garrett P. Serviss
• In the Quarter, by Robert W. Chambers

Book Reviews

• Fiction
  • Robert W. Chambers
  • John Crowley
    • The Deep
    • Beasts
    • Engine Summer
    • Little, Big
    • AEgypt
      • AEgypt
      • Love & Sleep
      • Daemonomania
  • R. A. Lafferty
    • Past Master
  • Mark Twain
    • Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
  • Capsule Science Fiction Reviews
• Politics
  • Neil Postman, Technopoly
• Woodworking
  • Sam Allen, Making Workbenches

Movie and Audio Reviews

• Strange Picture Scroll: collected capsule reviews
• AVSForum
  • Review older films here: 1979 and earlier
  • Review films of the 1980s here!
  • Review films of the 1990s here!
• William Shakepeare on Film and Video
• William Shakepeare on Audio
• Jane Austen on Film and Video
• Classic Literature on Film
• Some Netflix Rental Charts

Eric Voegelin Study Page

Outlines, articles and links which may be helpful for those reading political scientist and philosopher Eric Voegelin.

Computing

Hardware

• Montag is a home computer built in September 2007.
• Dolores is a home computer built in September 2011.
• Curator is a file server built in March 2014.
• Kate is a home computer built in late 2015.

OPPO FAQS

• BDP-80: faq | settings checklist (pdf)
• BDP-83: faq | settings checklist (pdf)
• BDP-93: faq | settings checklist
• BDP-103: faq | settings checklist
• BDP-103D: settings checklist
• UDP-203: faq | settings checklist

Typography

The ConTeXt and pdfTeX Beginners Help Page is a collection of hints and examples I collected while learning to use TeX.

Résumé

Software Consulting, Contract Programming, Book design and typesetting

Specialties:

• C++, Python, COBOL, SQL, HTML, other languages.
• UNIX, Linux, and VMS programming.
• Relational database design, tuning and application development for large systems.
• INGRES.
• TeX and ConTeXt

Quotes

Friends of Mine

• The Sparks Home Page
• Reb's web page!
• Jeff Skeate