Jon Jensen

I live in Teton Valley, Idaho (near Yellowstone) and work at End Point Corporation on various Internet-related projects: web applications, databases, e-commerce, scalability, system administration, and security.

I write on the End Point blog and Somusing, blog of my wife, Erin.

Other places to find me on the web:

My email address is jon@swelter.net. You may encrypt messages to me using my PGP/GnuPG DSA public key or my older RSA public key.

A random quotation from my collection:

These stirrings [of conscience] within us originate from a divine source
and, when followed, will help to keep us on course, thus protecting us
from harmful influences and dangerous detours.

--Kenneth Johnson, "Yielding to the Enticings of the Holy Spirit," Ensign,
Nov. 2002, 90

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I support free software and open source. Don't be a sharecropper! I contribute to projects including Interchange, DevCamps, and Bucardo, and keep some old scripts around. Other free software I work most often with: Vim, GNU Screen, Irssi, Git, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, PostgreSQL, Linux (mostly Red Hat/Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian), OpenBSD, OpenSSH, Postfix, Dovecot, and Nmap, just as a sampling. Thanks to all free software developers for your time and efforts!

Johann Sebastian Bach composed some of my favorite music (see these freely redistributable Bach sheet music PDFs). Mutopia collects freely usable music scores and is where I got some of these. Thanks to those who typeset the music and gave it away!

Several years ago, a tree fell on our car, so I wrote up the story to share.

My novice linguistics research: I wrote a paper for Linguistics 490 (senior seminar) taught by John Robertson, winter semester 1998 at Brigham Young University. It examines how Hebrew verb patterns (binyanim) may be semantically grouped using C.S. Peirce's universal categories. The paper: Hebrew Verb Pattern Tendencies Clarified by Peirce's Universal Categories (8.5 x 11"). Reference chart: Roots in various binyanim chart (11 x 17").

Links about religion:

I'm an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
I maintain the website for alumni of the LDS Germany Leipzig/Dresden Mission. (See mission.net for other missions' sites.)
Olivet prophecy harmony of different accounts in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke), Joseph Smith--Matthew, and Doctrine & Covenants section 45
Excerpts from The Voice of Warning and Instruction to All People by Parley P. Pratt, 1863 ed.
The King Follett Discourse by Joseph Smith
Book of Mormon (full text) and Book of Mormon evidences

Links about liberty:

I favor ending government involvement in education, as does the Alliance for the Separation of School and State.
I support the Institute for Justice, litigators for liberty.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation works to preserve freedoms in the electronic world.
The classic 1987 article From Crossbows to Cryptography: Thwarting the State via Technology reminds us that the tools for defending (or infringing on!) freedom change over time.
Worth rereading periodically: The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies.
I read Liberty magazine.
There's more to government than "left", "right", "Republican", and "Democrat". Take the World's Smallest Political Quiz.

mod.zayda.net is a collection of old Amiga-era music "modules", including the whole U4ia and F8 collection by Jim Young, mostly created on his Amiga.

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