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About Ftrain.com

Ftrain.com is a a collection of interlinked pages, with text, graphics, and links to other digitally encoded media objects.

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Ftrain FAQ
Frequently asked, or implied, questions about this Web site.
Sunday, January 5, 2003
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How to Help Ftrain.com
Altruism is best when it's reciprocal.
Monday, July 29, 2002
3
Ftrain.com Editorial Policy
Regarding emails and letters.
Friday, April 11, 2003
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Ftrain Sponsors
A list of those who have helped Ftrain.com, and to whom I am very grateful. If your name isn't here, and you helped me out, please tell me - I'd like to keep this list as complete as possible.
Monday, February 10, 2003
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Work in The Morning News
I am an occasional contributor to The Morning News. Here is a list of stories, in reverse chronological order.
Wednesday, June 26, 2002
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Requests for Help or Content
Ways to help keep Ftrain rolling.
Saturday, February 23, 2002
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Other Web Content of Value
Where other Web content of value is promoted.
Tuesday, February 26, 2002
4 sections.

Ftrain on the big screen.

Views of Ftrain. Aside from the default hierarchy, there are many ways of Looking at an Ftrain: The Table of Contents view for the traditionally minded, the Reverse Chronology for those who like to work backwards, and the Forward Chronology for those who like to see how it happened.

Development tools. Ftrain is developed using custom code written in XSLT2.0.

Copyright. Ftrain is Copyright 1997-2002 Paul Ford unless otherwise noted, but anyone who sings these songs is a friend of mine. Ftrain also has a Ftrain.com Privacy Statement

The Author. Paul Ford is Paul.Ford . He is also Paul Ford: a story of unbearable handsomeness. Finally, and for real, he is: A genuine biography

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Making Sense of This Site
A guide for the perplexed
Monday, June 11, 2001
2 sections.
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New Shoes for Ftrain
This is an administrative notice about the design of this site, and you should ignore it unless you care about Reader Services or printing out sections of Ftrain.
Thursday, June 27, 2002
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Ftrain Reader Services
A collection of utilities to make reading a given Web site more interesting.
Monday, January 28, 2002
5 sections.
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Rationale for this Web site
Why would someone build Ftrain.com?
Saturday, January 27, 2001
4 sections.
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Open to Criticism
All manner of response, wherever, is encouraged.
Wednesday, February 27, 2002
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To-do List
A list of things which Ftrain needs done to itself.
Saturday, January 5, 2002
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Ftrain is Accessible
At least, I think it's accessible.
Sunday, October 20, 2002
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My Amazon Wishlist
Ryokan wants to give the moon to the thief.
Thursday, February 28, 2002
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Masthead
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TrackBack

Back to fiction!
Tuesday, January 16, 2007


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Ftrain.com is the website of Paul Ford and his pseudonyms. It is showing its age. I'm rewriting the code but it's taking some time.

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About the author: I've been running this website from 1997. For a living I write stories and essays, program computers, edit things, and help people launch online publications. (LinkedIn). I wrote a novel. I was an editor at Harper's Magazine for five years; then I was a Contributing Editor; now I am a free agent. I was also on NPR's All Things Considered for a while. I still write for The Morning News, and some other places.

If you have any questions for me, I am very accessible by email. You can email me at ford@ftrain.com and ask me things and I will try to answer. Especially if you want to clarify something or write something critical. I am glad to clarify things so that you can disagree more effectively.

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