Welcome to my home
Oh how I wish there was a tidy introduction for this site — maybe a list of posts that were popular or I thought were good… Alas, that data doesn’t exist. (But I do have this “pinned” tag for things that resonate with me.)
I can offer some guideposts with the suggestion to just click around!
Here are the major paths:
The Daily Photo Journal
I’m not a photographer, I just like to make with the photos — mostly to remember things.
The journal is updated somewhat regularly with the goal to post at least one photo for every day — even when nothing happened. It’s a habit after 20 years of doing so. A picture is not enough (for me), so I try to add a bit of context.
Entries are organized by recent days, monthly archives, a cast of characters and general topics. Some posts have additional context with location data and granular tags. Oh, and I try and include a song that I listened to that day!
Links
I save bookmarks from all over the web to revisit later. Topics span the gamut of design, inspiration, sometimes gift ideas. It’s a very manual process.
Favorites
This section is rough, but the idea was to highlight favorite things (a feature of my first personal website). My hope is to one day expand this to be more integrated and offer new categories for favorite writing and recommendations for my hometown of Cincinnati.
Projects
This portfolio of sorts contains a smattering of work I’ve done over the years. The section is intentionally buried as it isn’t fully baked.
A Little History
This site began in 1996, serving as a portfolio as I started a web design company. I didn’t have any real work, so I created a timeline that reached back to childhood drawings and projects through high school and college.
I never threw that HTML timeline away, it lives on in this archive.
Over the years I added photo albums to share with friends and family — all cobbled together with tables and crude automations from Photoshop or whatever new WYSIWYG1 tech was available.
Eventually I ported over entries from LiveJournal (some are terribly embarrassing). But I figure it’s all archived somewhere, I might as well have a set of keys.
Over the pandemic I worked with a developer to create a database driven foundation to fold in 12,000 bookmarks saved over the years, added a section for projects, people and location tags. One day, I’ll change it all up again, but the hope is to add to data and never to remove it.
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- WYSIWYG — What You See Is What You Get software allows for manipulation of elements by clicking and dragging instead of writing code. I started making web sites with GoLive CyberStudio (which would eventually become Adobe Dreamweaver down a long winding path). ↩︎