Welcome to my personal web space.
No longer new! My phlog, cyber scrapheap, is one of the many fine gopherholes on the SDF gopherclub
I am on Mastodon, @jdd@cosocial.ca
See my Fowl Place archive. 10 years of utterances all on one convenient web page.
Since you are visiting my home page, you must want to see a picture of my cat:
Or view The Horror, a minor work of personal digital archaeology. Better with javascript.
While I'm figuring out what else to put here, please enjoy this ...
A curated list of old-school, non-commercial, hand-made websites in the 90s vernacular. Survivors of the Web As It Once Was, and sites that preserve the spirit of it.
See the full List o' Links here. Now with tags and descriptions!
Here are the five most recent links:
Floor796
An animated scene showing the lives of various characters inhabiting the 796th floor of a huge space station. Just ... wow. Expansive, whimsical, massively detailed ... A hobby project by one author, begun in 2018, and only half done!
date added: 2025-04-12
The Canterbury Tour
A tour of the City of Canterbury, consisting of over 500 pages, each with a photo and text, all linked to a clickable map. Site originally dates from 1997, with some updates since.
date added: 2025-03-23
Bill & Sue-On Hillman's ERBzine
Has the tagline "Official Edgar Rice Burroughs Tribute and Weekly Webzine Site." On the web since 1996 and updated continuously to the present day. There's a lot here.
date added: 2025-03-02
Friends of CRC
The Communications Research Centre (CRC) is the Government of Canada's applied research centre for advanced telecommunications. Established in 1994, the Friends of CRC is "an association of CRC alumni and others who have an ongoing interest in the well-being and public image of CRC, as well as in social and technical activities." Lots of great historical information about the development of telecommunications in Canada.
date added: 2025-02-23
The Remington Steele Fan Page
A comprehensive guide to the classic 1980s TV series starring Stephanie Zimbalist and Pierce Brosnan. Episode guides, cast bios, photo galleries, articles and more! On the web since 1996.
date added: 2025-02-22
See the full List o' Links here.
The ten most recent additions are available in a handy RSS format.
A few links have been removed since I started this project, see the List o' Broken Links for details.
This site briefly belonged to:
The Yesterweb Ring
... before it became a "horrid monstrosity of users"