I've spent eight hours a day on it, every day for the last week, updating this site you are now at to version 3.1. I've slept with it, drank with it, watched TV with it, ate with it, even, I'm a little ashamed to say, looked at Internet pornography with it.

There is something beautiful, almost magical, about a good piece of software. SimpleText has been getting shipped in almost an unchanged form since 1984, with the invention of the original Macintosh. Somehow it has managed over the years to still remain a vital and relevant part of any computer. In an age where every word processor wants to correct your spelling for you, and check your grammar without asking, and change your email addresses into hyperlinks that you accidentally "click" on when just trying to change the spelling, and change all your (c)s into copyright symbols, there is something wonderful about SimpleText. It does...nothing. It assumes that you know what you want to do. You want to type. It lets you do that. And it doesn't try to provide anything else.

So, here's the new version of the site. It's pretty much the same as before (thus "3.1" instead of "4.0") with a few notable exceptions, mainly of which is the page you see right now. Yeah, that's right, I've decided to keep a daily web journal now that I finally have home internet access. (Hey, 21st Century Cable! You can blow me! It took six service calls and 35 days of repairs before someone finally decided to stick their head out the window and notice that the cable wasn't even hooked up to my apartment. Yeah, that's right you owe me one.) I hope the journal to change every 24 hours, but you know how that goes. The date at the top of the page will always alert you to the latest update.

Other additions include new banner graphics, a link page showing you all the other websites I write for, and an internal switch to a subdirectory hierarchy, which is something you won't (hopefully) notice but I sure do. (That's why it took me a week to update this site. I had to go through 500 HTML documents and change two lines of code on each of them. Ugh.)

Anyway, check back on a regular basis if you dare. Read about my exciting and pathetic adventures. Stop telling my mom about all the nasty stuff I do. And let's all get on our knees for a moment and thank the world for SimpleText, JPEGView, Centris Macs, and Netscape 3.0. My life would be hell without them.