Welcome to my home page! Here you'll find a list of some of the cool projects I've been working on.
For starters, check out my masterpiece, Scott Pakin's Automatic Complaint-Letter Generator.
Scott Pakin's Handy-Dandy
Word-Filtering Program helps you solve guess the mystery
word
-style puzzles).
My Humanclock widget won Opera Software's widget-of-the-week competition for the week of 2 December 2007. The widget lets you place those nifty humanclock.com photographs of the current time directly onto your desktop. So, download the Opera browser and try out my widget.
Guess what? I'm now an artist. Check out my Context Free Art gallery. (Click on each thumbnail for a larger view.) Context Free is a piece of software that lets one create artwork by combining simple geometric shapes in a variety of complex configurations.
If you like Magic Eye-style 3-D images, check out some of my autostereograms.
I use the LaTeX typesetting system instead of a word processor (such as Microsoft Word) for everything I write. I've even coded up a number of useful LaTeX packages for others to benefit from.
I wrote a handy little Gimp script entitled center-selection, which crops an image so as to center the current selection within the image's boundaries. I also created a utility called Netpbm2Gimp that facilitates programming Gimp filters by reimplementing the easy-to-use Netpbm API in terms of Gimp library calls. If you're not a programmer, check out gimp-netpbm2gimp-plugins, a collection of hundreds of Gimp filters automatically converted from Netpbm utilities using Netpbm2Gimp.
Speaking of the Netpbm utilities, I authored a few of them myself: avstopam, pampaintspill, pamsistoaglyph, pamstereogram, pamtoavs, pamtodjvurle, pamtooctaveimg, and pbmtodjvurle. I also helped improve other people's Netpbm utilities by submitting bug reports for every bug I encountered.
My winning entries (and honorable mentions) from the 3D Realms Camera Captioning Contest are available online.
Also, in the unlikely event that you need it, you can download my GnuPG key (ID: CF20354A; fingerprint: 62B1 20D8 E62E 5F0F 613D FAD3 5C9D 61C3 CF20 354A).
