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You don't stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you've stopped laughing...



This site will remain under construction as long as I do.

First a few caveats on the website itself:

  • If your screen resolution is less than 800 pixels wide, abandon hope.

  • If you have JavaScript turned off, you'll miss a lot but it should still work.

  • If you have CSS blocked, well you are just a damned fool.

  • If you have pictures turned off, you'll probably be lost. But you'll go nowhere a lot faster.

  • I use a lot of pictures, and while I've have and am making several tweaks to make some pages load faster, if you are using dialup "I'm sorry." Some pages are going to take quite a while to load.

  • If you are blind or using other handicapped access, this is probably not the site for you.

  • Those with cookies blocked will be fine (I don't know how to use those yet.)

  • As this is meant to exist much longer than I will be coding it, a lot of little bits are hidden illogically to keep things interesting.

  • As much as I've gone over it, there are tons of typos - sorry but I have a brain disorder. My favorite error is to leave the word 'not' and other small words out, which can be very confusing for the reader.

  • I'm learning HTML, JavaScript and CSS as I code. My coding style is horribly non-compliant (so don't try to learn from this source) but stands as a testament to what access to the Internet, tenacity, cut & paste and a mental hammer can achieve. It's written using FrontPage, which is a discontinued program. Learn from my mistake, never use FrontPage - it is 'easy' to use, but writes terrible code.

This site started as an idea I had while walking. At first I played with it in my mind as a joke. But as the walk progressed the idea took form, and became more serious. By the time I got home I was pretty sure I was going to do it. After all, what good is knowing that you are going to die early if you don't have something come of it. The idea? Having a web address on my tombstone. The more I think about it, I predict that this will become fairly commonplace in the decade to follow and several services and packages will spring up that will offer domains in perpetuity and the programming necessary to keep your site current with whatever web technology changes come to pass in the future.

For me it appeals to both the whimsy and narcissism in me to be able to write my own obituary. But more than that it will become a living record of my life.

Warning: My life is not always G rated. Keep your kids away if you don't like them exposed to reality in thought or picture form or harsh language.


Updates:

Most activity is currently occurring in 'My Journal'.


November 12th, 2007: The menu has again been reworked as even I get confused sometimes as to whether a new page has loaded because the thing is just too big. I've gone to a simple bar menu.

In October (2007) I plan to take a slow road trip home doing extensive work on Anecdotes as I go.

Note: That road trip never happened and became a flight home on November 15th.

  • A new section 'Send in Anecdotes' has been added for you to email in stories you remember about me, or add clarification or rebuttal to something I've written.
  • The Menu at the top of each page has been reworked to be an image map. I was going to do it with sections of the brain as the menu functions but decided that was too gauche. This later was changed to the grid menu that tops each page.
  • The Journal (My Blog) index page was getting unwieldy. I rewrote it as a pulldown menu. It seems to be working just fine in IE and Firefox but a link to the old index page is there just in case.

Me through the ages...

1957 1967 1977
1987 1997 2007


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