DarkerSide.org was a tumblr about recumbents, and is now a WordPress-powered thing where your humble author (Rob Williams) spouts forth about a variety of things that I find interesting.
Should you be overcome with the need to get in touch email is your best bet: rob@darkerside.org. If PGP encryption is your thing I can do that; my public key is on most key servers, or at the bottom of this page (fingerprint: B84A FA83 E628 BC06 E449 DAE1 7A26 B85F 137A 805C).
I also respond to a silhouette of a cycle projected onto the clouds in the Glasgow area and loud cries of ‘free cake’.
I’m on Twitter (@DarkerSide), and if none of those options work for you, use this form:
Some more stuff:
Copyright and licensing
This blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, except where explicitly stated otherwise. Effectively, you are free to copy, reuse and rework any of my blog content for non-commercial use as long as you tell people where it’s from (this blog), and put any resulting work under the same or a similar license. If I’ve borrowed content with permission from elsewhere and this doesn’t apply I’ll make it clear. If you’re unclear on anything, drop me an email (rob@darkerside.org).
Photos that I’ve borrowed with permission from elsewhere (easily identified because they don’t look like they were taken by an incompetent fool with a phone camera) generally will not fall under this. Read the caption, or click the specific image.
Using stuff for commercial purposes will almost always be fine as well, but please get in touch first. If you don’t, I will clobber you with the appropriate copyright law until you shift whatever you’ve created to a Creative Commons license as well. I will find this hilarious, you probably wont.
Sharing is good, folks. Stealing ain’t.
Comments
Comments made after 29 January 2014 (when I wrote this addition) automatically fall under the same license as the rest of the blog unless you state otherwise. I do ask for a name and email address, Providing a name and contact details is optional, and will only use the email to get in touch if I’ve deleted or want to edit your comment, or to answer a question you’ve asked. Names will be displayed next to your comment. Emails will never be displayed.
Comments will not be edited without discussion with you, apart from adding an automatic translation to anything not written in English or to blank out excessive swearing.
On which note, two general rules: be nice; no excessive swearing.
The automated wonders of Akismet block about two thousand spam comments from this blog per day. If your comment somehow ends up in that black pit (perhaps because your name actually is “Ch34p Prad4 Bag$”) then I’m afraid I’m not going to spot it. If your comment hasn’t appeared within a day or two, get in touch and I’ll try and find it. Note the first time you comment here I have to manually approve it, so there might be a slight delay anyway.
Style, spelling, appearance
You’re not fooling anyone by pretending to be interested in this stuff, you know.
When I can be bothered to check, I generally follow the Guardian style guide. I’ll use they as a gender-neutral singular pronoun (more here).
Despite occasional evidence to the contrary, I do know the difference between its and it’s; they’re, their and there; your and you’re.
The theme is a light modification of Anders Norén’s “Koji“.
PGP public key for rob@darkerside.org
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