These are the places where I do work, work, work, work, and more work (only remember always to call it research—Tom Lehrer) This is where I sometimes play, and also here I edit the XML FAQ, run about two dozen mailing lists, and hang out on Usenet (XML and ) when there's time The RSS feed (XML RDF) Slashdot, the best tech news site. And of course the Cork Linux User Group. The OpenZaurus distro and the Opie GUI for Z, my Sharp Zaurus PDA (and the cute rubber keyboard) New edition of the Collection from TUG with the whole of CTAN on DVD, an Install CD and a run-from CD (call the office for a copy). Software and sites: the Postmodern Essay Generator and the SCIgen automatic Computer Science paper generator, the FreeMind mindmap diagrammer, and the Denim website sketcher. The Good Guys (in no order whatsoever): Eve, TimB, Seán, Bruce, Lauren, Heather, Mark, Donncha, Mykel, Elliotte, Bob, TimP, Fiona, Brendan … Heritage Language Access and Preservation Colloquium in New York 15th Euro Conference in Pont-à-Mousson Practical in Chapel Hill, NC XTech (XML Europe) 2005 in Amsterdam ACH/ALLC 2005 in Victoria, BC UPA Conference in Montréal XML SummerSchool 2005 in Oxford Extreme Markup in Montréal TUG 2005 in Wuhan TEI Members Meeting in Sofia World Usability Day XML Conference 2005 in Atlanta IPEX 2006 at the NEC, Birmingham XTech (XML Europe) 2006 in Amsterdam Digital Humanities (ACH/ALLC) 2006 in Paris 16th Euro Conference in Hungary XML SummerSchool 2006 in Oxford Practical at Rutgers, NJ Extreme Markup in Montréal TUG 2006 in Marrakesh XML SummerSchool 2007 in Oxford TUG & Practical 2007 in San Diego TUG/Euro Conference 2008 in Cork XML SummerSchool 2008 in Oxford Note on how to create a multiplatform autorun CD. There's a new edition of in preparation, probably to be completed by Yuletide (the Users Group published an earlier version as an issue of their journal in 2002). Mini-AIR pegged my limerick as a runner-up in a competition. Occasionally I add a later note to an entry where it's not worth making a whole new entry to say something short: these are shown in the style of this paragraph and the index entry has an asterisk (*). Items which are under long-term revision are subject to change because they are re-used elsewhere. These are shown in the style of this paragraph and the index entry has a dagger (†). PHS PWA IRISH COMPUTER SOCIETY