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About

0. Contents

0. Contents (here)

1. About me

2. About this site

1. About me

1.0 who i am

I'm Charlie Harvey from Oxford, UK. I'm interested in all things techie, especially free software and GNU/Linux. I'm also into punk rock, dub reggae, and good cider. I'm fairly involved with anarchist politics and direct action for social justice. For a (startlinigly similar!) 'who am I' to this, see my rootshell page.

1.1 work and professional

1.2 activism

These are some of the areas of activism I try to be involved with from time to time

1.3 pals

Here are links to a few of my friends' websites

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1. About this site

2.0 why

A combination of things really...

2.1 standards

Web standards are a good thing® in my opinion. They mean that the content of the page is the same in any browser. They further mean that in any standards compliant browser, the page will look the same.

I've set out to make the site conform to xhtml 1.1 , and used css 2.1 for the presentational side. You'll see the w3c buttons at the bottom of all conforming pages. Because my newsfeeds page grabs its information from different places, it isn't guarenteed to be standards compliant - it works most of the time though!

2.2 accessibility

One of the things that I wanted to learn about with this project was accessibility. This means that people with visual or auditory impairments (and web spiders) can read the content of my pages as easily as anyone else, which seems only fair, really.

Pages on the site have been scanned using online tools to ensure their compliance with the w3c Web Accessibility Initiative guidelines for online "content".
There's three levels of accessibility: A,AA, and AAA. Most of the public pages on this site should meet the AAA standard, exceptions include Real Ultimate Perl geeks where I felt the idoim justified breaking my accessibility policy.

2.3 tools

I've been extremely lucky to have access to some great editors and other tools when building this site

2.4 code

All the code that this site uses will eventually be released under the GPL. I want to make sure that I document everything first, though! At the moment general users would find my documentation style somewhat cryptic(!) If you want to use any of the code in it's raw, undocumented state, please feel free to contact me. Some code is already available in writings.

2.5 graphics

After the 2006 redesign a logo appeared for the first time on the site. As of January 2007, there are also some pretty gradient fills. I aim to keep the graphics to a minimum, except for places where that would be silly like the gallery. There used to be no graphics on the site at all! I originally started writing it when I had a 56k modem, so performance was one of my requirements.

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