Blather


This page sucks but it is probably not going to get much better than this.

Looking at these pages objectively, they suck. I hate everything about them. I hate moving gifs but I have moving gifs. I hate counters but I have a counter. I hate popups but I have popups (the geo-ads; not so much my fault). I hate pages that say "email me" and I grovel for email on every page. I hate wordy and slow-loading index pages but I have a wordy and slow-loading index page. I hate poorly-edited pages with grammar and spelling errors, and I had a spelling error on mine for weeks --and probably have more. I hate pages with broken links and one of mine was broken for about a week.
I would probably delete myself if I were not convinced that I am the only person who ever visits (I believe the hits on the counter are from GeoCities employees testing their site, not real visitors). After all, why would anyone else look at this stuff?

Because I have nothing original to do with a web page I am using this space to give people access to some of the things that I like and to let them gripe about things that annoy them. While "the net" does not really need yet another site like that, it needs another "here is some personal information gathered in an electronic monument to myself as I flatter myself that all the world wants to read about me" page even less. You may submit a gripe if you like.

This sounds anally retentive (because it is), but please link to the index page so the hit gets counted. It actually does matter. Of course, I flatter myself to think that anyone will even visit much less make a link here.

Questions? Consult my FAQ before you write me.

The pages herein may be bad, but at least they are all really mine: I did them all by hand using what little HTML I know. I did not use any special editors or page makers. I did not even use the GeoCities Basic HTML Editor. All those things are cheating devices designed to help people who should never have pages make decent-looking ones (though they usually help those people make hideous ones). Whether I should have a page or not is a matter of some small debate, at least I deserve one for knowing how to make one myself.

I have decided to share my experiences with cheap scotch.

Because GeoCities has a silly rule that says I must have a link to anything in my directory --even "developing" pages (or else they are "invisible" and subject me to deletion)-- here are links to pages that are not finished or that I use for making new pages:
a blank page a readme file for software that isn't done yet a quick-reference page for HTML that I wrote for someone else.

bill is kibble.

I've begun to diagram my apartment network, so you can have a sneak preview of the not-quite-done page.




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