The site was a response to my want of a means of sharing photos with family and friends while indulging a desire to write a bit more about them than one‐ or two‐sentence captions. I dismissed using Facebook or anyone’s blogging software as a medium and was curious how one might go about overcoming some of the problems intrinsic to developing the program in which I was interested, so elected to roll my own. That was 15 years ago. In the time since, I have added a surfeit of fun stuff I built to surmount silly problems I set up solely to force myself to solve them. If I spent half as much time using it as I have playing with it, there would be ten times the number of items in the table of contents.
The geotagging icon (
) is used to link to a map page depicting my whereabouts, as I often carry a satellite‐based tracking device with me when I travel. The mapping product I use to depict those travels is
OpenFreeMap
© OpenMapTiles with resources from
OpenStreetMap.
The file cabinet icon (
) indicates the adjacent hyperlink has been relocated to target its archive within the Wayback Machine.
The broken‐link icon (
) indicates an adjacent hyperlink has been removed because its target disppeared from the internet and a copy is not available from the Wayback Machine, or else I elected not to point to that copy for one of a few reasons (e.g. closed restaurant).
Errata
The Chicago Manual of Style is at the top of the reference stack in my home office, but the Associated Press occasionally wins such arguments.
Wherever I refer to a coffee drink made with espresso and steamed milk, I spell it using a hyperforeignism. I’m okay with that.
Usage of the inanimate possessive is intentional about half the time. The other half of the time, I’ve learned to live with it.