The Great Fogbound Empire
A collection of stuff that's been growing, fungus-like, for years. I've
thought about breaking this into multiple pages based on category, or
rewriting this all in XML and having scripts generate it in beautiful
fashion for your viewing pleasure ... but, fundamentally, I'm lazy.
Enjoy anyway! Now it's been done! Lookie here!
Web Sites
Exhibits
A Collection of web sites I have built to showcase
photographs or artwork.
- The Winds & Sands of Time - the first web
site I ever built (and shows it), started back
in late '94, and expanded through early '96. Designed for Mosaic,
then Netscape, and framed for Netscape 2.
- Render Me Speechless - a web site to
showcase 3D renderings I'd done. Contains a number of
images also seen in The Winds and Sands of Time.
- Art Range - a web
site to showcase digital art I'd done. Contains many images seen
in Render Me Speechless as well as The Winds & Sands of Time.
This uses a lot of obsolete JavaScript, and probably won't work
in any browser newer than Netscape 3.x.
- Pictures from Ecuador - pictures I took on
a family trip to Ecuador in 1997. Uses JavaScript
in a multiple window setup; it should work with recent
browsers, but if you disable pop-ups, it won't be viewable.
- Peru & Bolivia -
pictures I took on a family trip to Peru & Bolivia in 1999.
Uses JavaScript in a multiple window setup; it should work with
recent browsers, but if you disable pop-ups, it won't be
viewable.
- a Trek in Nepal -
pictures I took on a trip to Nepal in 2000. Uses JavaScript
in a multiple window setup; it should work with recent
browsers, but if you disable pop-ups, it won't be viewable.
- Phogbound Photos -
an early attempt at a photo gallery. Uses JavaScript
in a multiple window setup; it should work with recent
browsers, but if you disable pop-ups, it won't be viewable.
- The Grand Unified Gallery - An ever-growing
collection of digital and scanned pictures, including (but not
limited to) just about every picture in
the sites listed above. Other notable collections here are
travel pictures of Japan,
travel pictures of Bulgaria,
pictures of my niece Sarah Junna,
and plant pictures.
- Hak'n a Tchainik - A Collection of Unusual
Teapots. Stoneware fine-art ceramic teapots.
Polemics
Sites dedicated to polemics and rantings...
- AndTheHorseYouRodeInOn.com - some politics,
some broken T-shirt sales, some Open Source / Free software, and
some ranting.
- Recently Read - Comments, thoughts, and
baseless opinions
on books I've recently read.
- Google Psychology. Google's "Zeitgeist" pages serve as Google's mirror, which they hold up to us so we can see what we're thinking about. But who holds the mirror up to Google and their mystical Page Rank algorithm?
Mystical Cult-like Cabals
Mysterious gatherings.
- The Meander - most months, on the Saturday
closest to the full moon, a varying group of Meanderers wander
off into the Malibu mountains, where they share food and drink,
read literature and poetry, sing, howl at the moon, and
generally experience the wilderness just outside the city.
Volunteer
Sites I have created, that I maintain, and/or
for which I provide server space (hosting) on a voluntary basis.
- City Garage -
Site for the Aresis Ensemble / City Garage theatre.
- The Daily Pint - A local bar and hang-out
in Santa Monica, California. Site is defunct.
- Hands On L. A. -
Massage Therapy issues in Los Angeles.
- Hands On CA -
Licensing of Massage Therapists in California.
- Mollie Favour - Showcase of Mollie's
paintings. (I only provide hosting and general goodwill.)
- Wares Shana Pottery - Pottery with an
Attitude. (I only provide hosting and general goodwill.)
- Meier Street - Community web site.
Companies
Places where I have built web sites and web
infrastructures for a living. I worked on many of the sites listed
by these companies, although it's not clear how much of that work
remains over time...
- BoxTop - Best known for being edgy.
Acquired by the iXL family of companies in 1997. No longer
in business.
- cow - Best known for excellent design.
Acquired by nobody in 1998. No longer in business.
- Magnet Interactive - Best known for
insane political infighting. Acquired by AKQA in 2000. No
longer in business (although AKQA may still be).
- 1969 Communications -
Best known for outstanding backend frameworks. Not an
acquisition target. Still very much in business!
Information
- Distilled Wisdom. A very eclectic list of notes I keep on things from how to create an ssh tunnel to the shrinkage of Long Beach Blend in Cone-10 reduction.
Code
Palm OS
- Space Trader - Written by Pieter Spronck,
this GPLed game is considered one of the best Palm OS games ever
written. I contributed many of the features that got added
between versions 1.1.2 and 1.2.
- Flummox - A shareware puzzle game for the
Palm platform. Color and monochrome versions available. The
shareware version does not expire, and may be played
indefinitely -- it just nags occasionally.
JavaScript
- Tile Puzzle - A example of a
JavaScript "switch the tiles" puzzle. You can create your own
puzzles using a picture, some photo editor, and this GPLed
JavaScript. You can see examples here, here, or here.
Perl
I hate Perl, for oh so many reasons. Still, I find myself using it all
the time. Here are a bunch of scripts, scriptlets, and chunks of code which
I offer to the public domain. The quality of this code varies from "utter
crap" to "typical Perl" -- I offer no guarantees of any sort. Some of them
use old, deprecated syntax. Some of them use plain wrong syntax that happens
to work. You take full responsibilty for anything bad that happens if you
run these, whether it's the erasing of your hard drive, the loss of data, or
the re-election of George W. Bush.
- quashBadChars.pl. A script
to go (recursively) through a directory and rename directories and files.
Basically, it removes all spaces, and non-alphanumerics except for
underscores and periods. This is convenient for utilities that copy
files from/to Windows/Mac OS/Unix using ssh and that don't escape the
filenames intelligently.
- renumberDeepCollection.pl.
Say you had a digital camera that used the same naming convention for each
memory card you used. And say that you had a lot of directories full
of files from this
camera that you wanted to merge into a single collection. But if you just
put 'em all in a single directory, there would be namespace clash. This
script will let you rename them all to a common convention, so that you can
make it appear a cohesive whole.
Misc
This is for projects, collections of code in multiple languages, etc.
- swigs_mods.tar.gz. SWIGS is
a web-based gallery creation system written in Perl by Brendan McMahan.
I like it because it
creates static pages (which is nice, so you can throw a copy of a
gallery on a CDROM, for example), because it's template based, and because
it allows nice nesting of pictures and albums in an intuitive, filesystem-
based organization.
The tar file above is a collection of tweaks I've done
to SWIGS to integrate SWISH-e for searching, code to give information
on nested albums, and some CGI code so people
can interactively describe images that are not already described.
For a live example, check out
The Grand
Unified Gallery.
- motion_scripts.tar.gz. Motion is
a video-for-linux application for monitoring cameras and recording any
motion. You can find more information about this fine Open Source project
at motion.sourceforge.net.
This collection of scripts is stuff I've thrown together to support
my full-time security monitoring system. It includes some web-wrappers
which I use to view captured images and system status via a web browser
(and Apache, which runs on the server), watchdog scripts to make sure
the Motion process is alive and well, and a culler script which deletes
old capture data in order to keep disk space within some defined
utilization range.
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