Why I will not be buying Windows Vista, and a gentle introduction to Linux
Steely Dan and Lisa Loeb à la Cybernetic Poet
Piet Mondrian meets Andy Warhol
Language: facts, fun, foibles, fascination, and faraway places
The canonical list of funny definitions
Sights and sites in Microsoft Flight Simulator
Astronomy in Microsoft Flight Simulator
Principles of good web design: how not to make me hate you
Opus for Four
A place for all and none
Beauty we must have, tradition we can dispense with. --Leopold Auer
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You are a not a number here. Therefore, there is no "You are visitor number" counter on this page. If you want a number, go to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. There are also no frames, no music, no multimegabyte backgrounds, no crazy fonts, and for God's sake no Flash animation (not even one that lets you skip it--after, of course, it's already done you the favor of loading itself). You want any of these, there are plenty of poorly-designed pages out there--go find one of them instead. Bobo the Webmonkey does not live in my toaster.
Last Revised: 7 January 2007
Viewing this page with the best (even if it is a bit idiosyncratic) browser available, Opera, is not a bad idea. However, as any well-designed page should, it will display more-or-less correctly in any browser at any color depth at any resolution. It even looks pretty good on a 8 MB monochrome Palm-based Kyocera smartphone and a Treo 650. If it seems a little off, check the technical notes; I probably already know what it is and why it does what it does.
All HTML on this website complies with HTML 4.01 Strict DTD. However, GeoCities's statistics code (which is added automatically whether I like it or not) does not. So, if you click on the left validator icon, the only errors you will see are those of GeoCities, not the author. However, even GeoCities can't screw up a stylesheet, so that validates with no problem. Click the right icon and see for yourself.
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