In Praise of Text

Knowledge is never as useful as it's supposed to be.

Certainly javascript has been quite the annoyance. It is easy enough to torture users with 4.x browsers by forcing them to click Javascript Error OK buttons every time a new page loads but is much harder to write for all platforms -- for obscure browsers and PDAs and the legally blind. And although I am tempted from time to time to load up on every dynamic device at my disposal I am never tempted for long.

This site was never meant to be a diary. It was certainly not meant to serve as a resume. Whatever this site does do, it does not reveal all -- neither script nor soul. If it reveals anything it must reveal the malleability of words.

January 1999