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Which isn't that empty anymore...

My gnupg/OpenPGP public key

A Word on Dvorak

Yeah, I know, it's rather messy at present. I'll work on it one of these days.

Nicholas "Tegeran" Knight, nknight@runawaynet.com

Getting around my spam filter.

I used to run POPFile (which I still recommend if your mail client doesn't have decent spam filtering) and included complex instructions here to get around the filter. I now use Thunderbird which includes spam filtering. Given the added convenience of the built-in filtering, I can more closely watch my spam folder, and circumvention becomes largely unneccesary.

The name "Tegeran"

For the record, "Tegeran" is to be pronounced "Teg-ar-en" (with a hard 'g', as in 'game' and 'galaxy', and the latter two syllables aren't really... they very much run together). Yes it's counter-intuitive. The name was originally intended for a single character in a game where all communication is textual, and the pronounciation was decided well after the spelling had (finally) been memorized by half the population of Karana. As a result, the spelling is unchangable for h(i|y)st(o|e)rical reasons.

As a result of the pronounciation being decided AFTER the name had been chosen, historic precedent — set, unsurprisingly, by females ;) — calls for the permissability of "Teggy", pronounced as one might expect, and "Tege", also pronounced like "Teggy". "Teg" is an obvious, frequent, and permissable abbreviation and pronounciation as well.

This might seem like a lot of fuss over a name that originated in a game and rarely sees any use offline, but it's a name that has produced no end of confusion and a great many questions.