About this site

I created this website because I decided it’d be nice if I had all my stuff in one place. Well, I don’t really have all my stuff in one place, but at least you can get to it from here. But this place isn’t really about me. It’s just about whatever stuff just happened to be created by me. In some ways I guess it can be seen as a big monument to myself, but I think it should ultimately be a monument to everyone. I could make pages and pages of things that will only interest me, but what’s the fun in that?

I am a geek. But just because I’m a geek doesn’t mean that my stuff is only for geeks. A lot of it will appeal more to a geeky audience, but there’s something for everyone, whether you’re young, old, smart, stupid, Christian, atheist…but probably not if you’re Muslim. There’s nothing wrong with Islam, it’s just that a lot of stuff here is probably forbidden. :)

But go on, check it out! You might find something you like.

Best viewed in…

This website is best viewed in a browser that doesn’t suck. In addition, it works well in Internet Explorer 6 and above.

Site infrastructure

So you want to know what makes this site tick? Bear in mind that what works for me won’t work for everybody. I’m a very eccentric person, and I often make major decisions for pretty minor reasons. But here’s how the site is and why it is the way it is…

First off, I’m hosted by NearlyFreeSpeech.[ext] It’s “nearly free” in the sense that it costs almost nothing, but the “speech” is completely “free” in that you’re free to say whatever the hell you want. Well, you still can’t break the law, but beyond that, anything goes. They play straight with you, and they’re friendly, knowledgeable, and dependable. Right now I would not even consider being hosted by anybody else. However, if you’re not a technogeek like me, it may well not be the best service for you.

I use PHP for the site, though it’s not really my favorite language. The site’s text is written in a slightly customized version of Textile,[ext] which I find much easier to work with than HTML most of the time. HTML is easy to understand, especially for a geek like me, but it is somewhat cumbersome to deal with when all you want to do is write. Geeks may like to deal with juggling tags around. Writers don’t. I’m both a geek and a writer, but I’m usually more of one than the other at a given moment. When I’m in Writer Mode, ideally, the site should just work. So far, for the most part, it does. I like it. I can just open a text file and start writing, and boom, there it is. That’s good for me, ’cause I can get stuff done, and it’s good for you, ’cause then you can see it!

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