On Tuesday afternoon (May 4, 2021), the computer that hosts darwinsys.com, ianonevs, and a bunch of other small web sites died, taking all the sites offline. The machine had been hosted with Clarity Hosting at their Front St datacenter in Toronto. While their pricing and service are top-notch, this …

Growing up in Toronto, there were few other people even named Ian. Or Darwin. As I grew up I met more.

Here are some other people I’ve found on the Internet going by the name "Ian Darwin".

This is the nth rewrite of the darwinsys.com web site, which I began in the mid 1990’s. The first domain registration was on St Patrick’s Day 1995; first commit was May 2 1995; earliest Archive.org ("way back machine") capture was January, 1998.

This version’s front page is written using …

This is a random collection of stuff I wrote and/or stuff I like enough to keep here.