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14 Jul 2000
“Do you want this Ad to Go Away?”

Most banner ads annoy me, especially those with frenetic animation, but I have a particular dislike for those that mimic Windows alert popups. The cuteness factor wears off immediately after seeing the first one, leaving only the sleaziness — after all, aren’t these ads just trying to momentarily fool newbie or inattentive surfers into thinking [...]

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14 Jul 2000
Mutterings

Like too many netizens with easy access to the ‘Net, I’ve yielded to the temptation to publish some of my random, irrelevant, mutterings on the Web — even though only an infinitesimal few will have any interest in them.

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10 Jul 2000
Site Redesign

Yet another redesign.  I’ve restructured the site hierarchy and have begun using style sheets (CSS) and server-side includes (SSI).  Consider these pages experimental while I learn the practicalities and gotchas of CSS.

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14 Feb 2000
burnout

I generally don’t care for tacky animated gifs, but the one on the right is just too close to reality! I can also say this [edit: below, rather than a link] since I’m on the fence anyway. A man piloting a hot air balloon discovers he’s wandered off course and is hopelessly lost. He descends [...]

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20 Jun 1998
Why my own domain?

Well, vanity to some extent, but my original ISP has changed names, via being eaten by ISPs higher up in the food chain, at least six times since I’ve been with them (INST, TECLink, WAS, Meta3, Ayrix, BigNetSouth, …). They have continued to support most of the previous domains, but it’s still annoying. With my [...]

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19 Jun 1998
lohnet.org Domain Registration

Registered domain lohnet.org with Network Solutions. Soon thereafter I set up email for lohnet.org via Millsaps.

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14 Apr 1994
LOHNET-NET IP Assignment

Obtained network 199.184.174.0 from the InterNIC (now ARIN), way back when such things were still free and easy to get. I use it for my home network. I’ll probably turn it back in to ARIN at some point because I don’t think I’ll ever be able to go live on the Internet with this address [...]

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