About This Site

This site is generated, updated, and maintained using the freely-available Crimson Editor.

To check what the page looks like in a browser, I usually use my default browser, which is either Mozilla Firefox or Opera, depending on my mood. However, I also look at it from time to time in everyone else's default browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. If you use IE6, I strongly recommend that you upgrade to Internet Explorer 7. I like PNG graphics, and IE6 doesn't.

One resource has been invaluable in its creation and maintenance: the Web Design Group's HTML 4.0 Reference. It is a spectacular web development tool, especially for people like me who didn't really know very much HTML when they got started.

My defunct guestbook is from Matt's Script Archive.

Of course, I would be remiss as a brother if I didn't thank Andy for his generous donation of free web consulting services. He really is a genius.

My website is hosted from a shared server in Scottsdale, AZ owned by GoDaddy.

My Flash intro, as well as much of the artwork on the site, was generously designed and implemented by Ashwin Vaidyanathan, who's also my good friend.

And I must inform you that I thefted the spiral image on my main page from www.LaserFX.com, which I found via a Google Image Search. I must also advise you that I invented the word "thefted".

Pronouns

Pronouns? Yes. Pronouns. From time to time, I come to a point where I'm hypothetically talking about a person doing something, I have a choice, grammatically:

• I can say "When one goes to the store, one rarely finds oneself greeted by cheerful store employees."
• I can say "When someone goes to the store, they rarely find themselves greeted by cheerful store employees."
• I can say "When a person goes to the store, (s)he rarely finds his/herself greeted by cheerful store empoloyees."
• I can say "When somebody goes to the store, she rarely finds herself greeted by cheerful store employees."

In the words of Drew Campbell, author of Technical Theatre for Nontechnical People:

One of the as-yet-unsolved problems in the English language is the absence of a gender-neutral, third-person singular pronoun. Unlike the French, who have the glorious use of the pronoun "on," we must struggle along with only "he" and "she" and all their related forms (his, hers, himself, herself, etc.). The closest approximation--"one"--has a cold, businesslike quality to it, and, personally, I find using "his or her" a bit awkward. Therefore, I have decided to simply alternate between the masculine and feminine forms. While you are reading, you may encounter generic technicians or designers who have assumed one sex or the other. Please do not interpret this to mean that any job is limited to only half of our population. I am often heartened that jobs in the theater [sic] business tend to be less gender-specific than those in other industries. The word "actor" seems to have become a neutral word for both sexes, however, so I will stick to that rather than alternating with "actress."

I've done pretty much the same thing on this site, except instead of "alternating," I just choose one at random. Most of the time, since I'm trying not to be sexist, I end up choosing the feminine form. Thank you.