About

Here, this is not my doctrine, ’tis my study; and is not the lesson of another, but my own. And if I communicate it, it ought not to be ill taken, for that which is of use to me, may also, peradventure, be useful to another. As to the rest, I spoil nothing, I make use of nothing but my own; and if I play the fool, ’tis at my own expense, and nobody else is concerned in it; for ’tis a folly that will die with me, and that no one is to inherit.

Michel de Montaigne “On Practice (1595)”

Um, hi. I’m Mark. I write here, sometimes.

Frequent posts here have not been a thing. In reality, this site itself existed solely on a hard drive at home instead of somewhere other people could see it for many years.

I was always too busy with work to put real time into this. But it has been a constant side project because I like playing with computers — it’s just that “playing with computers” is what has put a roof over my head and kept me fed for the last three decades I am well aware of how fortunate I was to have had people throw money at me to pursue my hobby. (after many unsuccessful attempts at being a working musician), so I never had the time.

So anyway, now that I am no longer a corporate cog and instead a man of leisure I will attempt to be more prolific. Try to contain your enthusiasm.

This site is also the archive of my previous digital lives, Some of which are old, and a little embarrassing. like my old livejournal or instagram accounts.

Names have been truncated to protect the innocent.

Also, Please note

Your cliched Under Construction animated GIF: Silhouettes of people in hardhats digging and a yellow and black diagonally stripped line — I’ve been doing this long enough that I *have* actually placed a GIF just like this one, unironically, into a web page I authored. More than once. So fuck it.

If I waited for this to be perfect, it would never see the light of day. Some things will be broken sometimes. Some of it will look like crap sometimes.

Expect it to shift under your feet.