The Letter D

Daily Decision

Every day, I make a decision, or two. Usually, I mail my decisions to Diana, because she never ever tells me to shut up and that I'm being silly. So, I figured ... hey! Why not terrorize the web?

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DeBurgh, Lady Catherine

A personal hero. A minor character in Pride and Prejudice, who has one of the best lines in the whole book. "And that, I suppose, was your mother?"

Design History

My very first actual web page - dating back to June 1994 featured a stylized sunflower, lots of inane text, and the nucelus of the Ancient World Web and Charlottesville On-Line in the forms of interminable links. My own ambition soon got the best of me, and the inevitable series of redesigns began ... the next day.

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Design Notes

A would-be running commentary on everything from advertising to doorknob design to poorly designed parking lots - whatever catches my fancy, or inspires my disdain. If I actually had time (or a psychic brain implant that would convert certain selected thoughts to written brilliance) to do this well, there might be more (and newer) content.

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Downloads

Free stuff. Like most free stuff, it's not worth much. You probably won't get it, won't like it, or wonder why I bothered. That's pretty much why I bothered.

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Dresser

Ever since I was little, my grandmother had a dresser in the downstairs room. It was painted yellow and has pokey Pennsylvania Dutch-esque stickers on it, and I loved to open the drawers and see what was inside, even after I already knew that I'd find fabric and paper stuffed in there. There was magic in opening the drawers.

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