As a student, I put this up on my website in order to see who was checking me out. The surprising result was that recruiters started contacting me, saying that they were looking for someone with my "strong qualifications." I guess that since cheap labor is so easy to find these days, it's the expensive labor that's in short supply.

Ben Calhoun and I narrowly survived a foray into
the DMZ on our ISLPED 2003 visit in Korea.
Here's a photo I managed to take after they caught us.



My self-maintaining directory of people named Michael Taylor.

Surgery on a Dell Latitude D600 to fix the keyboard rattling/instability/bouncing problem.

My brother   --
internet entrepreneur,
ex-Navy diver,
and deep-water fossil retrievalist

braves the alligator-riddled depths of muddy southern seaboard rivers to stock
a pair of his online businesses: www.sharksteeth.com and www.jtssharksteeth.com.

Here's a photo of my sister training for the AFSP in Africa.
She prefers the stopping power of the AK-47.
She tells me that keeping her shoe-laces untied reminds her to duck for cover. Actually, she's more of a tree hugger than lion-hunter or counter-revolutionary.

A list of unix environment tricks that I use
from time to time but can seldom remember.

Instructions for connecting a Windows 2000 box to a
Samsung 7300N laser printer over TCP/IP networking.

Kirill Kochetkov's Excellent PC SPEC 2000 Articles


An Excel spreadsheet with a list of countries, their population, their GDP per capita in US Dollars. This is the merge of two tables: a population table from the CIA World Factbook, and a per-capita GDP figure from another Internet source. If I were to do this again, I would have used a perl script to harvest the data from the CIA World Factbook.

A small contribution to XFree86 - fix for PTYs in xterm.

Patch #186 - 2004/4/18 - XFree86 4.4.99.4
...
remove an incorrect comparison against PTYCHARLEN in parsing the -S option (report by Michael B Taylor).

A small contribution to gcc for x86:

Mon Jun 16 14:08:38 1997 Michael Taylor < mbt@mit.edu >
* i386-dis.c (dis386_twobyte): Fix pand and pandn.