I try to avoid this getting to be a meta-webpage (that is, a web page about my web page), but last night I was thinking I'd take some pictures from my old old (in web years) pages and copy them over to here, but it turns out they're so grainy I can't even stand to look at them. So now I have to dig up the originals and scan them again. Plus they were gifs instead of jpgs and take up too much room anyway. When I first got on the web in '95 or so I signed up with an ISP called Ultranet, which was based in Marlborough and has long since been snarfed up by RCN. They gave you some free web space, so I played around with a home page, tried to do a proto-weblog, even had the first online presence for the Chorale, but it got to be a big pain to update, and of course no one was looking at the web back then anyway. By the time I dumped them in favor of DSL a couple of years ago, the pages were already so dated that I didn't bother to put them up on the new site, but I kept thinking I'd give them an overhaul. Well, two years go by and nothing. A few months back I'd seen a couple of mentions here and there about weblogs, but didn't think much of it. Then surfing at work one day I came across Patrick Nielsen Hayden's web log, which led me to a few others (Cory Doctorow, Warren Ellis, etc.), which led me to Moveable Type (which seemed too heavyweight for my Verizon account) and finally Blogger. And the rest is history. So here we are, almost three months later, finally getting a decent amount of content up there with big plans for the future. It helps that I've been doing some web development for the last two years so I kind of know how to do layout in HTML (although doing this kind of site vs. a transactional application does present some big differences), and have better tools to put it all together. Will it ever be ready for prime time? Let's hope not.