Last updated: December 12, 2007
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.
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
- A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century, by Agnes M. Clerke
Coming soon:
- Round the Year with the Stars, by Garrett P. Serviss
- Astronomy With the Naked Eye, by Garrett P. Serviss
- Astronomy With an Opera-Glass, by Garrett P. Serviss
- Pleasures of the Telescope, by Garrett P. Serviss
Outlines, articles and links which may be helpful for those reading political scientist and philosopher Eric Voegelin.
Open Source Projects
Astrolabe is a collection of subroutines and applications for calculating the positions of the sun, moon, planets and other celestial objects. The emphasis is on high accuracy over a several thousand year time span.The Astrolabe source is licensed under the GPL, meaning it can be copied and distributed freely.
Hardware
Montag is a home computer built in September 2007.
The ConTeXt and pdfTeX Beginners Help Page is a collection of hints and examples I collected while learning to use TeX.
Software Consulting, Contract Programming, Book design and typesettingSpecialties:
- 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