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I started this site back in the Summer/Fall of 1999, when my brother started teaching me HTML and set me up with an FTP client and free host. Why have this site? I don't know. It doesn't really have much of a purpose. It's not useful, it's not even remotely interesting for 99.999998012407904480690476284141% of the world (as of my most recent estimate)... so what's the point?

Well, it's education... for me, that it. I get to play around with some basic HTML, do some design and image work, and store various files, photos, videos, and so on. It's a handy place to host school projects. And the official Taconnet web site is so incredibly lackluster (as of August '06; I know a new one is in the works) that in that single respect my Taconnet site may actually be handy. Basically, I just kind of put whatever I feel like up here.

But none of the coding is complicated enough to make it that education in these days of AJAX and web services and everything, so that's not even a particularly good reason. Whatever. As Microsoft might say in one of their Office Live ads, I'm fighting Invisi-Busin-- uh, Invisi-Person. Invisi-Self. Yeah, sure. Who cares if it's not true. ;)

Statistics

These are just pulled straight from FrontPage, so don't hold me responsible for accuracy. This is just for fun. :)

As of 27 January 2007:

This site has:

• 1444 files totaling 515 MB
• 1173 pictures totaling 477 MB
• 5333 links, 690 external and 4643 internal
• 17 slow pages (estimated dl time of over 30 sec. at ISDN)
• 772 old files (unmodified in the past 72 days)

Other Trivia

When I finally got fed up with how long I was waiting to finish and upload v5.0, it was January 31, 2007. By the time the first parts went online, it was February. And guess what I realized the home page read? "February 2006 Version 5.0 goes live". Yup, a full year ago I had anticipated getting the site up somewhere in Feb. '06, and hadn't updated that since.

On a related note, throughout most of the development phase every page had a note "This page last updated 17 February 2006" at the bottom. Which was generally only true for about a day.

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Version History
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