Like many of you, I was profoundly impressed at the promise of the web when I first encountered it. Infinite low-cost publishing flexibility! After reaching for that tiger's tail back in the heady days of the mid-nineties, I was thrown clear of the rubble just before the tiger became butter.

Others whom I respect and whose company I enjoy had begun to experiment with blogging, mostly at the various blog-hosting sites. I was unimpressed with the hosting options for various reasons, and as I was in the middle of building my own OS X based server, used the excuse as a means of educating myself about fully rigging a n*x server.

At just that time, Ben and Mena Trott released Movable Type 2, a perl-based blogging app that proved to be widely popular for many reasons, flexibility and ease of use among them.

My content here is drawn from the range of creative and critical activities I have always engaged in. When I started this site, I thought of this as a notebook which paralleled my sketchbooks. I certainly expected that the content here would be fairly evenly split between visual and verbal. Instead, I find that nearly all of my creative time, over three years after beginning this experiment, is devoted to writing.

I'm a free-range webchicken, writer, and designer living and working in Seattle. Look up at the top of the page and you'll see a link to my (outdated) resumé; look into it, and give me a call. I can help.