Welcome to my home on the Internet.

DeepSky is my primary online location and Patrick Burton <madmagic@deepsky.com> is my main email address, although there is a partial archive of prior personal web pages at Vex.net. Email sent to either madmagic@vex.net or madmagic@icomm.ca is read here. However, I usually correspond using this account. (For the curious, I'm also madmagic on Wikipedia, GardenWeb, Google Mail, and Slashdot; I was madmagic@io.org.)

Personal and Professional

• madmagic writing: selected poetry, songs, prose and non-fiction

• madmagic through the lens: a small (48K) digital photo taken in the summer of 2001. There's also a larger (492K) version online, more suitable for printing. Photograph by Lyn Fincham.

• my resume: some of my work and experience in writing, Internet consulting and related services. (Note: this document has not been updated for a number of years.)

• io.Writing: a writers' website and ezine hosted at DeepSky. [1996]

Internet Community

• iComm
  A nonprofit community organization which formerly donated free Internet services to hundreds of other nonprofit groups worldwide beginning in December 1996, iComm grew out of the io.Community program which I started at Internex Online (io.org) on June 1, 1995. iComm shut down in July of 2005.

• An Address by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan [June 1997]
  "...it is ignorance, not knowledge, that makes enemies of men. It is ignorance, not knowledge, that makes fighters of children. It is ignorance, not knowledge, that leads some to advocate tyranny over democracy. It is ignorance, not knowledge, that makes some think that human misery is inevitable. It is ignorance, not knowledge, that make others say that there are many worlds, when we know that there is one. Ours."

• The Electronic Connection (The Ostry Report) [February 1994]
  by Bernard Ostry. This intelligent, thoughtful and well-written report to the Federal Government about the past history and future hopes for the development of a national electronic highway should be required reading for all Canadians. Please read, bookmark and distribute.

• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace [February 1996]
  by John Perry Barlow

• help! (v. 1.3) [May 1995 - May 1997]
  A Consumers' Guide to Mental Health Information