Projects
A list of projects, past present and future. The older stuff is served up as is, which means things may not work in today’s modern, up to date web browsers (since I was hashing out IE5/Netscape 4 differences back in the day).
Eventually I plan on cleaning a lot of this up, but you know how these things go.
USGS Digital Data Series 21
I repurposed around 1500 public domain photographs from the USGS and put them online for anyone to use.
Desktop »
An occasional service of gliff.org, offering up images for your computer desktop.
Image Hole »
“Moblogging” about three weeks before Moblogging became a big thing. I hacked together a truly frankensteinish set of scripts and mail checking to automatically post images from my T-Mobile Sidekick to the web.
Unfortunately, the Sidekick’s camera attachment was too awkward to be of any real use, and I quickly lost interest, (it didn’t help things any when I sent the camera attachment through the wash).
Simple Gliff
A series of simple gliff homepages.
Hiding From Them
The fetal version of my current weblog. Old main page here, and the default MT archive pages here. Don't miss the Bio page and the series of One Shots down the left side.
Green Gliff »
Heavily glassdog influenced, this was the first design up at the gliff.org domain (previously I lived at a tilde account with digiweb.com, and before that it was rit.edu).
The right sidebar is supposed to be a marvel of DHTML proportions, and still is in IE5+PC and Netscape 4.x. It chokes in other browsers and is a great example of why web standards are important. (I also didn’t understand how to properly “link” javascript functions, so the Navigation is busted if you’re not using the above two browsers).
For those using a modern (or mac) browser (like me), here’s a link to my favorite part of this gliff incarnation, the multimedia page. It has a some of my old Shockwave (Director) and Flash work.
Grey Gliff »
The start of my monochromatic adventures, and my continued fascination with frame based design. Grey was also marked the start of my “weblog”, although I still kept longer writing separate. Unfortunately, I can’t find my old weblog entires from this period.
Blue Gliff »
This was the first time I was really happy with a page design, and that happy feeling continued for more than a week. More writing, still a separate weblog vs. long form.
Black and White Gliff »
I abandoned Netscape 4 users for the first time, Black and White gliff was also managed with my own custom “blog” system. This iteration also featured more server side stuff, including an “ask alan” feature, a simple search feature, and a scrape of WBER concert listings. A lot of this doesn’t work right now, and needs some cleaning.
Sparse Gliff »
The gliff.org main page from January 2003 to March 2004. Start at the end and "previously" your way back to the begining.
Questions for the Right »
An exercise in rhetoric, I also maintained a reproductive rights weblog here for a few months. On a technical level this was an attempt to modernize the “show a random thing from a user input” technique that a lot of early homepages utilized, but do it without a meta refresh.
Andy Stochansky »
An attempt to fill the music site void left by shutting by my Ani DiFranco site, I could never quite get into this one (nothing to do with Mr. Stochansky, who appears to be doing ok for himself. Yah Andy!).