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Elizabeth Zwicky

I last updated this section on Mar 4, 2008, and the last mostly finished object I added is a list of kinds of names that are problematic for programs.

My Blog Pictures of Opal

Some Professional Stuff

I work at Acuitus, Inc but the web page design is not my fault. I'm working on computer-aided education, in particular for teaching system administration and problem solving. For this reason, I have reviews of books on problem solving (very much in progress).

I wrote a book, twice; it's called Building Internet Firewalls and you can find more stuff about firewalls and my first co-author, Brent Chapman at Great Circle Associates.

I review books for ;login:.

Steve Simmons and I have a presentation called "Rules Of Thumb of System Administration" which I am bringing onto the wiki.

Are you putting together something that deals with people's names? It might capitalize them, decide what's a legal name, make usernames or email addresses based on them, that sort of thing? Here's a list of some problem cases you might want to think about.

Here are some oldies but goodies, starting with advice for people who answer telephones.

I'm not sure how professional this is, but here are some useless and unoriginal seven-layer models.

Some Personal Stuff

I rave and rant every so often. I do it less if I get to make things; here are some instructions for things I make.. And here are some pictures of pretty patterns I've drawn. But if that's all too normal, you could check out some output from a PostScript program inspired by Vasarely, or small, spare collages, or programs that are fun to look at or some photos from the beach .

As you may have noticed, I have a small child. I am also opinionated, so I often write up advice on child-related stuff. Sometimes I compare it to my experience dealing with my stepfather, who had dementia.

My father is Arnold Zwicky.

Mail me at my last name at otoh.org

And Some Of The Books I Own

Stuff in progress so it doesn't get lost.