I started this page when I was a graduate student in English Literature at Columbia University. Now I'm at Johns Hopkins. The free-software stuff below is mainly a half-decade out of date, though someone might still have fun with the Emacs stuff. I imagine this will be pulled offline sometime sooner or later, as my rights to Columbia's server space expires.
A collection of some emacs lisp scripts I wrote. The biggest program here is sudoku.el, a major mode for sudoku puzzles, including on-the-fly downloading of puzzles from the web. Other scripts are simpler, relating to LaTeX authoring and printer interface.
This page is meant to offer a short account of how I got Debian GNU/Linux (Sid) up and running on my Fujitsu Lifebook S6210. The short story: almost everything works. A few things (suspend to ram, flash memory reader) do not. Or I haven't been able to get them to work yet, anyway. This page is no doubt a bit outdated, but most of the information should still be useful.
Since Debian can't ship lame for legal reasons, there is no gstreamer plugin for it. This means that you cannot use sound-juicer (or rhythmbox, which it plugs in to) to burn mp3s. Here's a short how-to I wrote on building this plugin.