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NANOMAN'S HOMEPAGE

Welcome to the website of Nanoman's Company!

We use this website as a tool for supporting our customers. Please visit our
Support page for more information.

Nanoman created this website to serve as an outlet for his musings. He still
uses it as such, but on his own personal pages.

Thank you for visiting!

-- Nanoman's Company

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NEWS

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NANOMAN'S COMPANY OFFICIAL VICENNIAL AND UPCOMING CHANGES

2022-05-17 00:00:00 -04:00 by Nanoman

Hello, Internet! Nanoman here.

On 2002-05-17, I walked into an Ontario government office to register "Nanoman's
Company" as my business's name. Their registration system was offline that day,
so I wasn't able to register until the following week. During registration,
2002-05-17 was the date I provided as my first official day of business because
a customer paid me that day using this name.

I had been using the name "Nanoman's Company" for frivolous purposes since 1994,
but in 2001, I started using this name for my freelance professional IT work. My
rationale for registering the name was to give some credibility to my freelance
work, and I assumed that having a registered business would simplify reporting
my income during tax season.

I consider myself remarkably privileged to have been invited into the homes,
businesses, and organizations of all the wonderful people who have been paying
for my IT knowledge and skills since 1994. I've been fantastically fortunate to
meet so many amazing people, and it has given me immense satisfaction to see how
their lives and endeavours have benefited from my efforts. I've also had the
misfortune of encountering some people who have been quite rotten, but the
majority of my customers have been awesome.

The past twenty years have been chaotic and exhausting. I didn't have a business
plan when I registered my business in 2002, and I didn't have any of the
infrastructure required to support the long-term needs of my rapidly growing
customer base. In 2007, I started turning away customers and projects because I
didn't have everything that I needed to keep up with demand, and my business
collapsed in 2015. Despite all these challenges and setbacks, I still don't know
of any job that I'd enjoy more than the one I have now.

I lost many great customers when my business collapsed in 2015, and I deeply
regret this, but this reduced my workload significantly. I had a daunting
backlog of orders to process, but with more time available, I've been able to
build the infrastructure that I should have had in place before 2002-05-17, and
I've had time to think about how I want to proceed.

When I renewed my business's name in 2017, I realized that the name "Nanoman's
Company" doesn't accurately represent my work or my ambitions. I've always
wanted my business to be collaborative with an ingrained appreciation for
ethics, but "Nanoman's Company" sounds like an egocentric dictatorship with no
obvious goals.

Since 2017, I've spent a lot of time thinking and writing about plans for my
business. I've built and modified infrastructure to accommodate these plans, and
I'm getting close to my goals, but some major changes will be needed that I feel
I should announce.

Today, I'm announcing that Nanoman's Company will be moving into a new business
that will offer all the same services that I provide now, but it will do so
using a different name and business model. This move won't happen until the new
business is ready, and the name "Nanoman's Company" will continue to exist for
administrative reasons, but all Nanoman's Company infrastructure and customers
will be migrated into the new business.

On 2021-01-22, a name for the new business was chosen, and on 2022-01-21, this
new business's name was officially registered. I believe that this new
business's name represents my goals much better than "Nanoman's Company", and
I'll announce the name later in 2022.

It's going to take me at least a few months to finish modifying my company's
infrastructure for the new business, and I've been doing all this work on my
own. I'm hopeful that the move will happen in 2022, but it depends on how much
of my time needs to be spent on other matters.

I'll continue supporting my customers during the transition, so this might cause
the move to be delayed. When the new business is ready to take over, I'll
announce the date when the change will become official, and I'll personally
contact each of my customers to inform them of the changes.

With the new business, supporting the widely varying needs of my customers
should be significantly easier, and I believe that my customers will be happier
too. There's a lot that I want to write about the new business, but I'll save
these details for future announcements.

After Nanoman's Company finishes moving into the new business with its own new
website, I'll be reclaiming Nanoman.ca to use as my own personal website. I have
personal content here dating back to 1998-07-02 that I want to keep, but a lot
of it conflicts with my professional objectives, and there's much more that I
want to publish, so I'm looking forward to regaining complete control of this
space.

I'm eternally grateful to everybody who has helped Nanoman's Company over the
past twenty years, and to everybody who has encouraged my professional ambitions
since 1994. I couldn't have endured this long without the patience and
assistance that I've received from my customers, colleagues, suppliers, and
other supporters. I truly hope that all these people will be proud of what
they've helped me enable for the next twenty years.


MIGRATION TO OPENPGP FOR PROTECTING EMAIL MESSAGES

2020-12-19 00:00:00 -05:00 by Nanoman

Sending an email message is as risky as sending a postcard. Anybody can send a
message that appears to come from your email address, and anybody can read
and/or modify any message that you send if they can access anything that's used
to relay it from you to your recipients.

If you and/or your correspondents need to be able to trust the authenticity of
an email message, then the message should be "digitally" (cryptographically)
signed. If the contents of an email message need to be secret, then the message
should be encrypted.

For digitally signing and/or encrypting email messages, the two most popular
standards are OpenPGP and S/MIME. We used and recommended S/MIME from 2006-07-02
until 2020-03-17 because Mozilla Thunderbird had built-in support for it, and we
believed that it would be easier to deploy and support.

S/MIME itself worked very well for us and our customers, but there were external
problems that severely diminished its practicality. By 2020-03-17, these
external problems made S/MIME practically unusable for us, so we switched to
OpenPGP, and we began to migrate all our S/MIME customers to OpenPGP.

On 2020-07-17, Mozilla Thunderbird version 78.0 was released with built-in
support for OpenPGP. There were problems with this version that made
Thunderbird's OpenPGP implementation unusable for our customers, and these
problems persisted until the 2020-12-15 release of version 78.6.0. Thunderbird
now supports the minimum requirements of our OpenPGP customers, and more
improvements are being developed.

We've updated our Mozilla Thunderbird guide to include instructions for
configuring it with OpenPGP. We've also created our OpenPGP page to introduce
OpenPGP concepts to people who have never used it, and to describe how to use
these in Thunderbird. We created these pages to better serve our customers, so
please contact us if you're a customer of ours who has any problems with these
guides.

All our S/MIME certificates are now expired, and we've revoked them too. If
you're a customer or a supplier of ours who needs to verify the authenticity of
something that claims to have been digitally signed by us, or if you need to
email us something encrypted, please contact us to request a copy of our OpenPGP
public key.


ENDING SUPPORT FOR APPLE PRODUCTS

2018-10-06 00:00:00 -04:00 by Nanoman

Effective 2018-10-06, we've ended our support for Apple products that we haven't
serviced previously. If you own an Apple product that we've serviced in the
past, or if you think you'll need support from us for a new or different Apple
product, then please read our "End of Support for Apple Products" page to learn
why we made this decision and how this might affect you.


NEW RANDOM PASSWORD GENERATOR

2017-05-26 00:00:00 -04:00 by Nanoman

We've added a random words option to our random password generator. This should
enable users to generate random passwords that are much easier to remember than
random characters.


NANOMAN'S COMPANY OFFICIAL SESQUIDECADE

2017-05-17 00:00:00 -04:00 by Nanoman

Nanoman's Company was officially registered as a Canadian business fifteen years
ago today. Nanoman first used the name "Nanoman's Company" in 1994, and Nanoman
was first paid for his services that same year, but "Nanoman's Company" wasn't
officially registered until 2002-05-17.

Thank you to everyone who has supported us through our first official
sesquidecade, and a much bigger thank you to everyone who enabled us to start
it!

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Homepage Created:1998-07-02 Moved to Nanoman.ca:2003-10-29

Encryption: Enabled

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