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Email/jabber/googletalk arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no, fax +49 89 45029758, postal address Schweppermannstr. 8, 81671 München, Germany.
(Pedantic side note: I have and use a .priv.no domain because I am Norwegian.)
The same picture is available in six-megapixel resolution for printing, and even in colour.
There are a few other pictures of me on the web. Martin Konold has one where I look excitingly unprofessional — gesticulating and explaining in a very Arntish manner. If I speak, I gesticulate. If I listen, my hands play with something.
I've written quite a bit of software (mostly open source) in the past decades. My biggest work is on the Qt GUI toolkit, particularly its widgets and documentation, its free edition, as well as on Archiveopteryx — I put years of work into each of those.
I designed Qt's documentation format, wrote the first version(s) of qdoc, and did most of the writing until I left Trolltech around 2.3. Since leaving Trolltech I've written a new, better documentation tool and refined my thinking on the subject quite a bit.
I've also done some smaller open-source work,
such as some TCP/IP bits in the linux kernel, Caldera's Lizard
(the
first GUI installer for linux, the first decently intelligent one, and the
first to include a game to keep you occupied while the installation
completes), the original version of
Leafnode,
the
postscript rot13
and a variety of other stuff, big and small.
I am author or co-author of 5-10 RFCs, most notably the one for DNS SRV, which specifies how Jabber/XMPP/SIP/LDAP/etc clients locate their servers, and sometimes how servers locate other servers. Imagine my joy when Microsoft was the first notable implementer. The other RFCs mostly relate to mail, particularly IMAP.
I'm also known known for being the first spamfighter, even though I did not do very much.
I have a blog, which I started in order to write about literate programming and source code documentation. Sometimes I also write about hardware I have and whatever else wants to be written, particularly when I need to let off some steam.
You won't find much information about my private life either here or elsewhere on the internet. The lack of such information is not a mistake. Surely you have something productive to do.
