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The personal home page of Kevin Riggle (e-mail; résumé; LinkedIn).

I'm currently an undergraduate at MIT, expecting to graduate in June of 2010.

Some things you may find interesting which don't yet have places in the pages to the left:

• I finally got around to writing up my review of the Amazon Kindle DX.
• A news article in the MIT News section of Technology Review about my quest to get MITSFS's microfilm and microfiche digitized. (MITSFS being the MIT Science Fiction Society, of which I was President and Skinner '06-'08.)
• Simple Linux T-shirts, because I found it inexplicably hard to find a nice, high-quality black T-shirt with Tux the Linux mascot on the front, so I fixed the problem myself. Also hoodies and fitted and not-black T-shirts.
• The markdown2mediawiki.pl script I wrote to convert the Markdown-formatted wiki dump files from the annoyingly-defunct hosted wiki site Stikipad into the XML import format used by MediaWiki. (See the MediaWiki manual's page on Importing XML dumps for details on how to get the data into your MediaWiki instance.)
• The motivator.pl GIMP plug-in I wrote to create (de)motivational posters. Install it with gimptool-2.0 --install-bin motivator.pl. Requires the latest, unofficial Gimp2 Perl bindings and Gimp >2.0, of course.
• Sample output from the motivator script (warning -- large files!): Education (photo credit, poster licensed under Creative Commons by-sa-nc) and Planning (photo credit, poster also licensed under Creative Commons by-sa-nc)