Jeff Ballard

A homepage



What have I done?

  1. The BOFH-style excuse server
  2. A number of projects, including wwwgrab and an old winamp plugin
  3. A bunch of Articles in Network Computing Magazine Sadly no longer a print publication...
  4. I spent some time on the Condor Team over at CS. Its a cool project!
  5. In a fit of boredom a long time ago I wrote the BOFH Excuse Server


What I find interesting

  1. I use Linux, and why you, um..., shouldn't.
  2. Escher and the Droste effect
  3. LOPSA


Things to read

Bored? Need things to read? Here's an eclectic collection of various things I've found interesting. In no particular order:
  1. The Right to Read
  2. Eric Frank Russell's "And Then There Were None" (1951). A short story about Freedom. I won't.
  3. I like to program. Here's a book I've used (and theres more, too)
  4. A Sound of Thunder
  5. The Gun without a Bang by Finn O'Donnevan


Things I help out with

  1. Diane Remy School of Dance & Baton - A worthy cause.


Other pages

  1. work
  2. old stuff
My Recent Blog Posts
Palin has it all in hand8 Feb 2010
The best Superbowl 2010 Commercial.8 Feb 2010
Viewzi27 Jan 2010
ipsCA23 Dec 2009
Recursion13 Oct 2009


Above Morskie Oko
A view from Czarny Staw looking down on Morskie Oko

If you'd like to contact me: its jeff on a server called jeffballard.us.