Wow! This page is a bit Captain Obvious these days! While we (should) all know this kind of very-basic data-hygine by rote now days, back in the late 90's when this page was largely written (!) it was all new-frontier stuff!
Yep, my personal web-site has existed, in a form not unlike its present, since late last century!
I don't put my email address directly on my web site as I try to avoid bots harvesting addresses for SPAM. But you can still email me. You can construct my email address with the first word (before the dot) of this domain's name, then a number zero, and finish off with @gmail.com Note that this address is not intended to be permanent (thank goodness: Gmail's UI is utterly horrid!) and I will be moving to something on my own server equipment as soon as I get around to setting a private email server up (which could be some months off due to life).
Please do not mail me multi-megabyte attachments without asking first. My mailbox is limited in capacity and a big email from one person will stop other people sending me emails until I clears it. If the file you want to send is already on the web, send a copy of the URL from the address box of your browser (the bit that starts: https:// ).
I would prefer not to receive e-cards from web sites. Entering an email address into one of those web sites pretty-much guarantees it will end up sold to a spammer.
Here's a fun* activity: set yourself up a fresh email address, not in any way associated with your real (or online) identity, put it out on the internet, and do absolutely nothing with it. Monitor it and see all the scams that start rolling in. I have such an account I use for some testing purposes and get about 4 such messages a week without even trying.
According to emails sent to this account,
My main email address has inevitably ended up on some of the same SPAM lists, alphabetically about 5-minutes later. I say five minutes as that is about the normal delay between my test account getting the scam, and my main getting its own copy of the same. It is mildly amusing.
* For certain values of 'fun' only.
Don't bother sending me .exe files at all. I run GNU/Linux and can't run .exe files (well, I could if I really wanted to, but don't consider it worth the trouble of setting up WINE). Most of these 'free-of-charge' programs (not to be confused with "free software" which is a very different thing) are actually trojans installing spy-ware anyway, so even if I could, I wouldn't run them.
A trojan is a program that does a second, secret job while it is also doing what you think. They are named after the Trojan Horse, where a seemingly harmless gift was actually a way to get a small army into an enemy's city. A trojan program pretends to be a useful or amusing piece of software so you will let it into your computer. Then it does things you may not like, such as (these are all real examples):
Of course this sort of thing isn't limited to sleazy hacker-stereotypes in dark rooms. Big shiny multinational corporations such as Sony Music, Lenovo Computers and undoubtedly many more are just as happy to willfully and deliberately damage your property for their own ends. Never forget this!
Scammers calling you on the phone to 'fix your computer' is another popular way for them to get trojans onto your system (they tell you to download a program from a web site that will let them 'diagnose' the 'problem', then they have full remote access to your computer for whatever use they want).
Don't install software unless you are sure you trust the people who wrote it. That's why I use Linux -- I trust the code because thousands of people all over the world check it. Open-source software has been occasionally trojaned, and it was generally spotted in a day or two, compared to months to never for software where the source-code is not publicly viewable. And that is assuming, as mentioned above, the software itself isn't a trojan by design of the actual company selling it to you! (And some VERY well-known companies are doing this sort of thing routinely circa 2020's - mainly privacy invasion malware, rather than more explicitly-damaging stuff, but still evil, and I don't use that word lightly!)
In some parts of the world such as China (where I lived and worked for 6 years in the early 2000s), it is very easy to buy cheap (illegal) copies of commercial software. There is NO GUARANTEE that the person who copied the disks didn't add trojan software to the install (this is quite easy to do, doesn't even require any real programming ability). The same applies to so-called 'warez' (software made illegally available on the internet).
If you want a safe system, buy the real thing from the real company. If you can't afford it (who can?), use one of the often very good (or sometimes at least tolerable) open-source equivalents. They aren't always up to what you need, but far more often than not will be just fine, and sometimes they even turn out better than the commercial version - they are generally written by people who are also actual users of the software, not just coding to a feature-list handed down from a marketing department.
You can phone me if you know me well enough for me to give you my number! There is no guarantee I will answer - I only answer my phone if it is convenient, on the assumption that if the call is important, you will call again later, if you don't call again later, the call wasn't important! My phone is for my convenience, not yours! Also, 95% of incoming calls are just scam-spam so I have the ringer set low and habitually ignore the thing much of the time anyway, these days!
I also try to keep my voice-mail turned off (despite my telco constantly trying to turn it back on) and never check it. Voice-to-text messages do generally reach me (assuming the message isn't too garbled by whatever speech-interpreter my telco is using this month!), but texts are again going to sit in my message queue until I get around to looking at my phone.
A final option for contacting me is to find me and talk to me! I don't bite, and you probably taste awful anyway!
My preference is for email, over phone-text because I type much better on a proper keyboard and I like to parse what I have written as a whole before sending. I dislike talking on the phone, beyond the perfunctory, but am fine talking in person (I can be a bit terse unless you happen to hit the right topic, then you won't shut me up for hours!).