Allow me to indulge myself for a few lines. (Trust me, there is a point to all this.)
The creation and initial setup of this site is my way of putting something back into the computing community as payment for what I've gotten out of my local Users Groups over the last 16(!) years. It has been my privilege and pleasure to grovel at the knees of some of the most mind-blowing people imaginable, and right down to the last one of them, they are all the more remarkable because they just don't let their abilities and accomplishments go to their heads.
Through a long, colorful, and never uneventful history of talking with so many influential people, I have crafted within myself a number of traits that are best left to discussion within pyschology textbooks. One of those traits is something I believe the world, and particularly the World Wide Wait, needs more of, and that's the KISS principle. You know, the credo of Keep It Simple, STUPID!
Hence my 'hidden agenda' of making this site available to the maximum number of people/browsers/computer platforms. Herein you'll find only the barest essentials needed to get the message across, in the English language. There's no sound, no video, no streaming anything, no pizazz, no nothing whatsoever to get in your way as you partake of the knowledge offered on these pages. The end result? You get what you want/need in a very quick manner, and with no distractions or bandwidth wasting bu____it.
How is this possible, you ask? Easy. I use a raw ASCII text editor, a few aftermarket books on HTML, and two or three different browsers to keep me honest. In this way I can ensure that my pages are available to everyone who is at least HTML 2.0 compliant, no matter what their platform, browser or connection speed.
Contrast this with the efforts of a raw rookie who can't even spell WWW correctly 3 time out of 4. In today's world, he or she will use a so-called page builder to generate hundreds, even thousands, of lines of HTML code that do nothing more than display the ubiquitious "Hello World". Can you spell "user hostile" boys and girls? Its too bad that novices aren't required to show proof of mastery of at least some of the fundamentals of good page/site design before they are allowed to upload their latest bandwidth-waster.
Of course, the down side to this "stripped-down-to-the-essentials" code is that you don't get to experience the thrill of watching your $2000 Whizbang 1000 Mhz Pentium III computer perform almost as fast as a 1985 $2000 IBM 6 Mhz AT. Oh well, into each life some sacrifices must fall.
Let's get back to why you're here in the first place.