Gary McGath

My writing, external links
- Building My World: My general-purpose blog.
- Mad File Format Science: A blog for data geeks.
- Files That Last: My ebook on digital preservation for everygeek.
- My Twitter profile
- The Freeman/ Foundation for Economic Education: All the articles which I've written for FEE are available online.
- Compute!'s Guide to Adventure Games, my 1984 book, on Scribd. This is, as far as I can tell, a legitimate copy, though I didn't put it there. Compute! Books paid for the book as a work for hire, and the current owner, Omni Publications, doesn't object to the posting of old Compute! titles.
- YouTube: My YouTube page lists some videos which I like as well as a couple I've created on file formats.
On this site
- Photo album. Travel, SF cons, cats, etc. Haven't updated it in a while.
- Secure mail on he.net: He.net doesn't give you much information about how to set up secure email. Here's an attempt to remedy it, with special attention to Thunderbird and iOS mail.
- Book Reviews: Reviews of books that I've read.
- Model and Reality: An online book commenting on the philosophy of science, particularly the relationship of computers and the mind.
- Filk and Other Music: Filk music is the folk music of science fiction fandom. It is often performed at science fiction conventions, and several conventions each year are dedicated exclusively to filk.
- Fanfic: Two pun-filled Harry Potter spoofs, "HP and the Programmer's Printer" and "HP and the Eye of Tripoli," in which Hugh Packard learns the truth behind his Mundane upbringing, enters Bugwarts School of Computing and Programming, and faces the threat of Lord Petitmol. "Prolog in Heaven," in which God confers with his software development team of archangels on the biggest project ever.
- The Evil Counsellor's advice list: The Evil Overlord's advice list is well known, but Evil Counsellors such as Haman and Wormtongue need advice too.
- Dan Schulz, Scott Wirkus, Bob Meyrowitz, and Eyada: An account of harassment and threats against me over a period of years.
- John Kerry's advocacy of involuntary servitude for minors: Salvaged from a Google cache after he deleted it from his website in 2004. Possibly of historical interest.
- My public PGP key.
Notes, etc.
- Here's my business web site, if that's what you were looking for.
- You can send email to my first name plus my last initial at mcgath.com. Please don't post that address publicly.
- As of January 24, 2016, I have never been issued a National Security Letter. I'll update this periodically while it remains true. If I don't, it might mean I've just forgotten to. Or it might mean something else. (I'm not updating it daily, maybe three or four times a year.)
- In accordance with S. 877, passed by the United States House and Senate in 2003, the following legal notice is given: I will not give, sell, or otherwise transfer addresses maintained by mcgath.com or online service to any other party for the purposes of initiating, or enabling others to initiate, electronic mail messages, except by the consent of the owner of the address. The posting of this notice makes it illegal for spammers to use addresses harvested from this site.

Last updated January 24, 2016