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Personal web pages are roughly analogous to indiscriminately taping those little cardboard holiday decorations to one's window, even for holdays you don't celebrate. Or holidays you despise, or holidays that happened months ago.

Rather like the web, in fact. A lot of faded cardboard decorations taped to window glass whose time has generally passed and that people hate.

Useless Summary

Devin Carraway is an assortment of typical and atypical characteristics assembled in the form of a longhaired flagrantly liberal UNIX programmer, self-titled engineer and sometime (past) sysadmin. He writes code. He's 5'9.4" and narrower than the models in weight-loss commercials. Cynical to a fault, and then way past a fault, to the degree of vanishing into some sort of poorly-translated east german political tome college students give up halfway through. Speaks in long sentences and enjoys polysyllablic diction. Unforgiving and usually unaccomodating of ignorance, stupidity and thoughtlessness other than his own. Self-effacing and egotistical in varying proportion.

Jaded and Cynical Introduction

None of my pages are kept up to date, few of them are accurate. Some are outright lies. If you wanted truth, aside from Keats' beatifics, you've come to the wrong medium.

Kim Alm described personal pages as "... the pet rock of the 90s. They all have them, they all think they're very cute. But in a few years they're going to look back and be pretty embarrassed." I certainly hope so.

(Smug note: I suffer no particular illusions that any of this is cute. Worse yet for having done it anyway, but I can live with that.)

Hopeless and Idealistic Introduction

(under construction)

By, For or About

You've come this far. Abandon free will and choose from these. Or be not a mouse but a (wo)man, and choose one out of sheer desperation anyway.

• Person(al?)
• Work
• Old Work
• The Bongle Bunny Explanation
• TURN (pictures of friends)
• Music
• Poetry (old, often bad)
• /var/log/whiteboard (whiteboard itself has low uptime lately)
• Pretty Pictures (photography and/or gimp experiments)

This page was up a long time before I wrote the counter program, but it's been loaded 23338 times since then. :)

For the visually disabled reading the page with text-to-speech converters: the rest of this is in tables, and isn't worth reading anyway.

Technical Credits, Kind Of Powered by electricity, Run on rails, Served with Linux. Page made using PHP3. Written using emacs. Served with Apache. Freedom above all, in all -- in speech, in movement, in privacy, in security, in choice, in abstention, and many other things besides. Copious well-earned bowings and scrapings to fur.com for the bandwidth, power, and not hurling the server out into the street despite repeated provocation.

If you're reading this, you're probably not using M$ Internet Explorer. So far, 21369 IE users have been blocked from the page. Click the link to see why, if it isn't obvious; find out how to do it yourself. For the M$IE users who're viewing the page anyway, by search engine referral or minor deduction, and are preparing to send me derisive poorly-proofread mail saying "I saw your page with M$IE, you're bashing them for their success, nyah nyah," get off the floor and grow some more brain cells. If I wanted you blocked completely, I'd have done so at the webserver level, not with piddly little CGIs. Hmm. You've been here before (or someone using the same IP, anyway). The last time was 01:50:36AM on 10/19/99. Last time, you were using Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; Win95). Now you seem to be using ia_archiver. Hmm. Last few passers-through: Host Browser Time/Date Comment? webproxy.einpgh.org Netscape 4, WinNT Wed 11/10 3:51PM none unknown Netscape 3, Win95 Wed 11/10 3:23PM none ppp19.marin.cc.ca.us Netscape 4, Win95 Wed 11/10 3:02PM none unknown Netscape 4, Win98 Wed 11/10 3:01PM none news.npc.net Netscape 4, WinNT Wed 11/10 2:10PM none (an experiment in PHP3; sorry for the resemblance to a any one of a vast number of tacky guestbooks adorning the pet-rock personal pages of the world) Assembled and tweaked over the course of a couple of years to look decent with whatever version of Netscape I was using at the time. Should be perfectly readable with most any browser; I've used Lynx with it often enough and had no complaints. Best viewed with much better hardware at higher resolution and greater color depth and in a better state of mind than whatever you are now using.