This is my personal Web site. It's a bit like the proverbial tool shed out in the back of a house. Like an actual shed, this virtual shed is not very well organized. It is overstuffed with dusty Bric-à-brac of dubious value. There's some old stories I've written, photos I've taken, computer programs I've hacked together, a blog , gonzo side projects, some lists I compile for my own ego gratification.

In other words, the Shed exists mostly as a place for me to keep stuff, in case I'll need something later. Still, if you rummage about long enough, you may find some useful, or at least entertaining, curios.

And like many a shed, this site is crudely built. In other words, the design for this site stinks. It looks like it was designed by a fifth grader in 1997. Why? Mostly because I code all the pages by hand. I want to understand how HTML works. Also, I've gone through too many bad Web page editors over the years, all of which leave the page source code a giant mess. I'd rather have coarse-looking pages with code that will still make sense to me years later, rather than some once semi-stylish muck I'll have to reconstruct later. Also, the pages look bad because I suck at design.