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“Trails” is the personal website of Gisle Hannemyr. Here you'll find my blog, some of my essays (both work-in-progress and published material), some free software to download, and even a few answer pages that I maintain.
About me
Gisle Hannemyr is an independent author, speaker, and consultant on Internet usability and design. He is currently teaching and pursuing resarch interests at Institute of Informatics at the University of Oslo, where he is a lecturer (lektor). He was also member of the Privacy Commission set up by the Norwegian Government (2007-2008), and head of the Norwegian Creative Commons working group.
His research interests include design of information systems, privacy, computer security, technology and society, information architecture, digital media, ICT standards and open systems, free software, open access, and resource discovery in large information spaces.
He has authored and contributed to several books about technology. His latest books are Hva er Internett (Universitetsforlaget 2005), and Sammensatte tekster (Cappelen Damm 2009).
Photo
If you need a photo of me to illustrate an interview or article, you can download and use one of those below (for images marked ©, contact photographer to clear permissions). Some of the photograhs are also available in large sizes suitable for print publications - right click on the links below the photographs and save to download the larger sizes. For credit/attribution, use: “Photo: Private”.
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About this website
Most of this website is marked up according to W3C standard HTML 4.01. For laying out pages, I use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This means that in order to view the pages as they were intented, you must use a fairly recent browser. Opera 8, MSIE 7, Firefox 1.5 and Safari 1.2 (and later) all works reasonably well. Older browsers (e.g. Netscape 4) will munge the formatting. I've tried to make sure that the pages at least are readable with old browsers, but YMMV.
Some older portions of the site still use depreciated (transitional) HTML, but they shall be converted into HTML 4.01 Strict as soon as I can find the time to do it.
About the tools
The tools used to maintain this website include the Gnu emacs text editor, Adobe Photoshop CS graphics editor, Larry Wall's Perl for server side CGI-scripts, PHP for active server pages and for interfacing to MySQL, DocBook and Saxon for creating structured documents, and large amounts of hot China Black tea.
No bits were harmed while making this site.