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About Qwghlm

Qwghlm is the name of a fictitious island off the coast of Scotland, featured in the novels Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle trilogy by Neal Stephenson. The island hosts a population who speak a bizarre pithy language, so they become used by the British during World War 2 as codetalkers. It’s all a bit weird.

Why do I have this as my domain? Partly as a tribute to a very good book, partly because I thought one of just my name was a bit wanky, and partly because all the other good ideas I had were already taken. There’s also be a subtle dig at obscure/stupid domain names during the dot.com boom of the late Nineties and the whole ‘branding’ silliness, which my old site poked fun at.

Copyright etc.

All content (text, images, interactive media etc.) hosted on this site, except if otherwise stated, is Copyright © 1999-2007 Chris Applegate, and is
licenced under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons Licence.

This means you can copy, reproduce and modify the material, but under certain terms: you must attribute the material’s ownership to me, you cannot use it for commerical use, and you can only redistribute it under the same terms. See the Licence for more information. For more information about the Creative Commons project check out their website (I recommend you go anyway, it’s quite interesting and has cartoons too).

All views expressed here are my own and may not be those of my employers, teachers, relatives, friends, pets etc. You know, there are far more interesting parts of the site than this particular paragraph - go see them.