Jeffrey E. Hundstad's Information

Work Information

I work for Minnesota State University, Mankato in the Information Technology Services.

I currently focus in the following areas:

• Linux
• Krypton
• www.mnsu.edu
• Apache web services, CGI, PHP
• Web statistics
• Microsoft interfacing
• Online directory information
• I used to:
  • work on the campus AS/400 when we had one
  • work on the myMNSU - MSU's Portal
  • manage the usenet news.mnsu.edu when it existed
  • be a member of the ITS WebTeam

Contact Information

US Postal Address	Jeffrey Hundstad 3010 Memorial Library Mankato, Minnesota 56001 USA
Campus maps	Map Index Campus Map (my office is in ML — Memorial Library) Third floor detail ML (my office is 3040M)
ICBM Targeting Address	+44 08 57.00 -093 59 40.80 (239m)
Maidenhead Grid Square	EN34ad
Primary E-Mail	jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu
Secondary E-Mail	j3gum@yahoo.com
Amateur Radio (HAM) Call Sign	WE0A it used to be KC0RHM
My last known mobile location	Look up my last location on findu
Work phone	+1-507-389-6923
Fax	+1-507-389-6115
Home phone	+1-507-625-7643
Facebook (personal)	Jeffrey Hundstad
Twitter (ham radio updates)	we0a

Public Keys

I prefer GPG encodings.

• GPG Public Key
• PGP Public Key RSA
• PGP Public Key DH/DSS

Personal Information

I live in Mankato, MN, where I own a house near the University. I live there with my wife, Patrice, her cats, two tanks of fish and a lovebird. Sometime we'd like to get as far away from Mankato as possible…

Here's an audio clip (158,753 bytes) of me talking about the things I do at work. It's completely out of date but really it's here just so you can hear my voice :-)

I like my car.

Jim likes his Ural.

Family Links

• Patrice and Jeffrey Hundstad's new personal webpage.
• Patrice's Belly Dance page.
• My Mom & Dad's homepage
• Patrice's Mom & Dad's homepage
• My Dad's Legislative Page and Dad's Wikipedia page He's was a South Dakota State Senator.

Hobbies

• Amateur Radio — I'm an Extra Class license holder, callsign WE0A. If you really want to look at my station here it is. ARRL and The Mankato Area Radio Club (MARC) and the Minnesota Valley Repeater Association (MVRA) are useful resources in this area. I've also recently gotten interested in amateur satellites. I've used Predict plus my own program, predict-format, to calculate the AO-51 Echo orbital passes over Mankato, MN. Per request I've also computed ARISSSat-1, ARISSSat-1 orbital passes over Mankato, MN AO-27, AO-27 orbital passes over Mankato, MN HO-68, HO-68 orbital passes over Mankato, MN .
• Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) — I'd like to spend more time with the great people at the Shire of Rivenwood Tower, but I mostly just listen to them chat. They are looking for more members. If you are the least bit interested in Medieval History let me know.
• Astronomy — I belong to the Minnesota Amateur Astronomers, and love the Jack Horkheimer, Star Hustler show
• Irish Music (the pub variety) The Twin Cities still hosts great bands like The Tramps & Hawkers, The Druids, The Tim Malloys, Todd Menton, and the Sweet Colleens.
• Debian GNU/ Linux — The best OS in the world! If you need help I'd look at debianHELP.
• Open Source — I've contributed a little… very little. But intend to do more.

Information I must keep at my fingertips

• News:
  • Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
  • Linux Today - Linux News On Internet Time.
  • FreshMeat
  • CNN.com
• Weather sky & space:
  • Clear Sky Clocks in Minnesota or our local Standeford and Andreas Observatories clock
  • WM7D's Solar Resource Page
  • Near-Real-Time MUF Map, (graphic only)
  • National Weather Service : Blue Earth, Minnesota Zone Forecast, Gridpoint, Elemental Gridpoint, Summary
  • Karsten Weather Station N0QV
  • Weather Underground for Mankato, MN
  • Vaisala - Free Lightning Explorer

If it passes all of these… it's a webpage

The following references will help you generate valid, well organized HTML and/or XML. Once that is done you need valid style-sheets. Following the technical bits, you'll need to make sure that the page is widely accessible. Last and certainly not least you should spell check your document.

Also, listen to the warnings and make them go away. It's easy and makes it simple for your browser to deliver content consistently. It'll also help search engines categorize and list your pages correctly.

As a final note, either use style sheets or don't. Mixing them with a transitional DOCTYPE is just asking for grief. Choose the strict DOCTYPE and go for style-sheets.

• Well organized content: Style guide for online hypertext
• Valid HTML: Tidy, W3C HTML Validation Service, WDG HTML Validator
• Valid Style Sheets: CSS2 Specification, W3C CSS Validation Service, WDG CSSCheck
• Good Accessibility: If the page if for the State of Minnesota you must also follow Minnesota Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Guidelines
• Cache-ability
• Check your spelling.

…And of course the obligatory horrible bandwidth wasting picture of me