From the IRC demographics page my areas of interest are: * GPG & OpenPGP (current GPG key ID: 0x321E4E2373590E5D) * Python * chess * Slackware Linux * Solaris * OS X * assorted other BSDs and Linux distros * privacy & civil liberties campaigner * writer * systems admin & engineer * co-founder of CryptoParty in Melbourne. * current Treasurer of Pirate Party Australia (can be semi-regularly found on freenode.net and pirateirc.net). * IETF OpenPGP Working Group member (revising RFC 4880) * Qualified trainer. * Also running a little bot called [[::TheAdversary]] on a few channels (bot name refers to domain name). I use the [https://github.com/docwhat/itsalltext It's All Text!] add-on for FireFox and the [https://github.com/adversary-org/misc-scripts/tree/master/emacs External Editor] add-on for Thunderbird in order to use Emacs with these things as much as possible. I've also whipped up a little shell script masquerading as OS X app trickery for those interested in replicating the shell environment settings in an Emacs instance, providing both a terminal-less [https://github.com/adversary-org/emacs-launcher-osx Emacs Launcher and an Emacs Server Launcher]