molehole.org contact details

n a probably fruitless attempt¹ to discourage e-mail harvesting, feel free to reach me at the obfuscated:

david@molehole.org

"Why Molehole?" — I was an official ("management-approved") mole² at the IBM Hursley Park³ (UK) software laboratory for a couple of years in the early 1990s. (The mole sat in on meetings, reporting them directly and uncensored to the troops on an earlier version of the IBM intranet.) So when the question of domain name registration cropped up, other inspiration failed. Simple, really.

Tips of the hat to:

• style.org (of 13pt) for an elegant CSS that inspired Molehole's initial design. It has evolved further, of course.
• Chris Heilmann for working some neat list magic on the navigation bar. (I have disabled the resizing that imitated the OS X Dock. But then, I've also disabled the "magnification" offered by the real thing on my iMac, too.)

Footnotes

¹  I actually got rid of most of the incoming spam e-mail by switching to an ISP in Texas with very effective spam filtration software.
²  I invented the concept of, and ran as far as Florida with, the IBM Mole. By 1993, I was to be found "moling" right inside the Lab Director's office. In mid-2004, he commented to me that: "I don't imagine many others will ever think about it, but it's my feeling that your contribution as 'the mole' was, in hindsight, one of the most significant contributions made by anyone at Hursley. It made it possible to carry the whole lab team through that period of turmoil and, for me, very dark days when there was a serious chance that morale could have collapsed so much that the place would have become unviable." Three consecutive annual top performance ratings, but (alas) no promotion (then or since)!
³  IBM Hursley Park is, of course, an anagram of "risk humbler pay"...