Why do you think people are interested in you and what you have to say?
Um, er, uh ... well, I do try to say something useful from time to time
and I do make an attempt to verify the technical accuracy of anything
that ends up in the reference materials I write and maintain. I think
I'm a decent writer, I know enough to be dangerous about a lot of
things, and my daily life is at least a little different from the average
person's. I don't claim to be the best or the most knowledgeable
at anything, but I manage to try enough different things that there'll
always be something new happening at the treehouse, and I think that
makes it worth an electronic visit.
What compels you to design beautiful
pages and to write from the heart (beyond just the usual question of
"why an online journal")?
Maybe "compels" is the right word, though it's not specifically
about web pages. There's no way to escape from the feeling that
there are so very many books that remain unwritten, stories which
have yet to be told, inventions that are still lying undiscovered,
and knowledge that remains to be learned. I like feeling like
each day I've done at least a little something that's made the
world a tiny bit different than it would have been otherwise and
I'd hope it would be for the better. Some days it might be nothing
bigger than putting a few words out there that wouldn't have been
there otherwise. I think that the size of the steps you make
matters less than whether or not you bother to make those footprints
in the first place.
Or it's that "exhibitionism" thing from a couple of questions ago; it probably depends on the day and how much sleep I got the night before. That, and how could I pass up the chance to mess with the minds of future historians who will someday unearth the archived versions of today's personal web pages to determine what daily life was like in the dawning of the third millennium?