Contact

So you want to get in touch, eh?

Okay, that's cool.

The best way to interact with me is via comments on my blog, but if you're set on e-mailing me, you've come to the correct place. Before you e-mail, here are a couple of things I'd like you to know:

• Please, please understand that I have a limited number of hours in my day, and I have certain priorities in my life that usually eat them all up, like my family and the mountain of writing commitments I have to support them. If you email me, know that I will read it, but it's very unlikely that you'll get a quick response, if at all. It's nothing personal, it's just a consequence of my own limitations.
• Before you email, please read the FAQ and search my blog archives. Pretty much everything anyone would want to know is in there, somewhere.
• Don't ask me to send you signed pictures or anything like that. I simply don't have time to do that sort of
  thing, though I do occasionally sell signed books.
• Please use a descriptive subject line.
• If you're an AOL subscriber, I can't respond to you. AOL has blacklisted my mailserver since May of 2007, and refuses to unblock me, despite numerous attempts to convince them that I'm not a spammer. The funniest part? Some very helpful AOL employees e-mailed me to offer some help and support . . . and all my replies bounced. Thanks to the efforts of several AOL employees, I can now freely communicate with AOL members everywhere once again. Awesome!

It's not essential, but I prefer to receive mail that is encrypted, or at the very least, digitally signed. You can learn more about crypto and email at The GNUPG website, or at the Red Hat GNUpg page.  

Here is my public key:

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Okay, now that all of that is out of the way, I'm at my first name at my first and last name without spaces dot net.