Geo's Place (the web site) began in May 2002 as a hobby project to teach myself html. Coded completely manually using a simple text-editor, it began with only a picture of one of my cats (yes, I know) and a welcome paragraph.

Loki, the cat that started it all.

In the first six months, though, the site shifted dramatically in format as I experimented with various layouts and content. It's had a chatroom, permalinks, various javascript goodies, and so forth, most of which have been deleted. You may encounter some new bell or whistle that's under experimentation (like the snow on this page) as I'm experimenting with the coding, but generally the site has settled into a utilitarian, low maintenance simplicity. The original color scheme and layout of the site has been preserved for this page, however.

Shortly after I started this effort, I began to blog, beginning at first with just scavenged links, and then adding commentary. I soon left the link scavenging to other web sites that are better at it and now add comments only about once a week.

Though I no longer use it quite so much to learn html, the site is still coded from the ground up using a simple text editor. It's becoming useful as a place to store and share information, work on and archive personal projects, and to let folks I meet on-line get to know me a bit more. It also serves as off-board bookmarking for links I like to visit (particularly those in law and public policy) without cluttering up my browser's bookmarks.

In short, it's become just like a million other blogs out there on the Internet.