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Greg Anonymous

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My name is Greg, and I'm a multimaniac. What's a multimaniac? Well, consider what a monomaniac is: somebody who is obsessed with only one topic. If you get trapped into a conversation with one, they'll inevitably turn the subject of the conversation around to the only subject they're interested in. If you're talking about sports, they'll say, "Speaking of sports, why don't they give the scores in Esperanto?" Or, if you're talking about politics, they'll say, "Different countries would get along so much better if we'd all just learn Esperanto." A monomaniac is only interested in one subject, and they expect everyone else to be as interested in it as they are. Well, I'm interested in all kinds of things. In fact, when I was a kid, I used to have what I now call a "collection collection." I had a coin collection, a stamp collection, a button collection, a lapel pin collection, a model collection, a matchbook collection... None of them were terribly impressive, I'll admit, but I was never able to bring myself to concentrate on one to the exclusion of all the others. I'm still the same way: I'm into books, but my library isn't all that large, I'm into music, but my CD collection is even less impressive, I'm into movies, but my video collection is smaller still, I'm into computers, but my apartment just isn't big enough to house a computer collection, I'm into God, but that doesn't mean that I preach at every person I meet... You get the idea. My brother has a joke, when people ask him, "How did you know that?" His standard reply is, "I'm an information scientist. I know everything." It would probably be more accurate to call me an information junkie: I want to know everything. (I might be tempted to call myself a "Renaissance Man", but that sounds awfully pretentious, and besides which, it might prompt you to make jokes about my age.)

So, to learn more about my multiple manias, you can read the different sections of this web site:

If you want to know more about my faith, you can examine Greg the Christian.
If you like going to the movies, get some popcorn and join Greg the Film Buff as I review some of my favourites.
If you're curious about my sense of humour, you may want to check out Greg the Joker.
I'm the kind of guy who prefers to have music playing just about every waking moment. If you feel the same way, you may want to sit in with Greg the Listener as I share my appreciation for some of my favourite musicians.
If, like me, you start to drool when you walk into a well-stocked bookstore, then draw up a chair beside Greg the Reader as I talk about some of my favourite books.
If you want to know my opinions about computers, you can consult Greg the Wirehead.
If you would like to read my writing, you can check out Greg the Writer.
If you know somebody named Greg Slade, but I don't seem to be the one you know, then it may be that I am not the Greg you're looking for, in which case, you may want to look for a different Greg Slade on the web.

I have several other online projects running:

The Computer Aided Ministry Society is a computer users group for Christians. CAMsoc projects include the Christian Telecommunications Toolkit, which is a guide to using electronic communications, CAMsoc Update, which is a monthly newsletter on computing for Christians, the Christian Computing Bibliography, which lists books and periodicals related to computing and Christianity, the Church Related Software Index, which lists Christian software for different operating systems, and the Computer Re-use Optimisation Project, which is designed to encourage the practice of giving old computers to charity. I also have a book review webzine called Over the Shoulder. I'm also a science fiction fan, and I help out with coding the CHRISTIAN-FANDOM web site.

I'm not the only one in my family to be online. In fact, everybody in my family has an E-mail address. (I have four, and my older brother has about a dozen or so.) My brother Robert is particularly famous for his book reviews and his antivirus information. His newest book, Software Forensics, has been published by Osborne McGraw-Hill, and is available from better bookstores everywhere.

You can contact me by sending E-mail to: <grga@bluebottle.com>. (Note: This address is protected by a "whitelist" system. When the mail server receives your message, it will ask you to visit a web page and confirm that you are not a spammer. Once you have done that, your mail will go through, and you will not need to repeat the process as long as you send from the same address.)

I have taken the Boulder Pledge:

Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the on-line community.

Every once in a while, I will get some positive comments (and the occasional hate mail) about my web sites. Last year, I actually got an award. I have been selected as the "Geek of the Week" for the week of October 17, 2004 by MisterGeek.com. So it turns out that all those people who have been calling me a geek and a nerd all this time were right after all...