You have reached John Buckman's home page. I first started this home page in 1994, when the web was still in its infancy, and this site traces my work and interests over the years. Looking for something specific? Try a word search, or view documents by topic, alphabetically, date or check out the index. Dealing with (Internet) Reality: a recent presentation to the ICA in London, September 18th. Hobbies I am an amateur renaissance lute player and founder of the Internet Lute Society. I am the Webmaster of the Astor Piazzolla Organization, which documents my Piazzolla CD collection as well as including other Piazzolla resources. I maintain a list of Windows outliners and idea-organizing programs. I was a music composer and guitarist, but haven't had much time for that in the past decade. In 1998-2000, I attended Toastmasters meetings to improve my public speaking, and was president of Rockridge Toastmasters from January 1999 to July 1999. Back when I lived in Washington, I owned an electric car built in 1976 but gave it up when I moved to California in 1997. Major Software I've Written I'm the founder/CEO of Magnatune (2003), an Internet-based record label. I'm the founder/CEO of Lyris Technologies, and the original programmer of our products: Lyris ListManager (1st version in 1997), MailShield (1st version in 1998), and MailEngine (1st version in 2001). Before these came several commercial software packages, including TILE (1994, and which was used to create this web site), InfoMagnet (1994), the Desktop Internet Reference (1994), Audio Atomizer (1993), and the Lotus Notes Phone Dialer (1995). Software Written when I was a Kid I have been a professional programmer since the age of 14, when I started to work at Yale University, and developed Shareware that I sold (using a registration fee) through the BBS world. My first success in the software business occurred when I was 13 years old, with a Shareware program called Cassette (1982), which made several thousand dollars while I was in high school. Through my teen years I wrote a series of not-too-useful-but-fun programs, including many eye candy programs (1985), some fractal graphics (1986), and a polar coordinate graphics (1987). In college, my major accomplishment was a television display package (1987) used by several universities and some cable companies as well as an animation creation program for it called Megadraw (1987). Writings I have written several white papers, as well as several published articles: Stop Spam!, A History of List Servers, Comparing List Servers, and Comparing OSes for high-performance network applications. Personal History I have written a narrative autobiography of my life, from Running a Company (1996-), Early Years of Running a Company (1994-1996), Gainful Employment (1991-1994) back to Childhood & College (1969-1991). Books I Recommend I've reviewed the books I've read in the past few years, and if you are looking for reading recommendations, you can find my opinions of books on: business, science, history, science fiction, Ayn Rand, Salman Rushdie, Buckminster Fuller, programming, design, comics, cookbooks. Photos For those who are curious, here is a collection of photographs of me. Events For a period, I was documenting various trips, vacations and excursions I was taking, including two trade shows to Los Angeles: DMA Net.Marketing and spring Internet World '99 and a day-trip at Universal Studios. Also see the move out from our first office. Email your thoughts to me: john@redmood.com.