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Welcome to EJK's Desktop; This is my little corner of the Internet, running on some computer I installed Linux on a long time ago (though in this very galaxy). I wanted a space to write about things both practical and esoteric that I figured might be interesting to others, and this is it. I will dabble at many things, and on occasion garner an ongoing interest in them. The links to the left should give you some idea of what I've toyed with in the past.
This isn't a blog. If I wanted a blog, there are many services out there, none of them so picky and unforgiving as running one's own server and website. However, none of them offer the same level of control either. That's part of it; I have a website because I'm a geek and I can, and this is part of the virtually limitlessfreedom the Internet offers (Although there are... certain disturbing trends in this respect on several fronts). The other part is that rolling your own website/server from the installation of a second NIC on up will teach you so, so much. As they say, it's not the destination, it's the journey there.
Links to most of the rest of my site are in the big bar on the left, where I've tried to form some sort of logical arrangement. As you can see, I have quite a few photographs; The first pictures I took in 2004 during high school, and I've been adding them ever since. All the pictures are shot on film, developed and printed at home. The good ones, I scan and share with you. They are all stored on my desktop at far greater resolution; Just E-Mail me and I'll gladly send them. The rest of the pages are divided pretty much along a hardware toy/mental toy line, although there are a few practical pages hidden here and there. But most of it's just stuff that I think is plain old awesome.
Part of my experiment here is a number of bash scripts which automatically perform some basic site maintenance functions for me. They range from things as trivial as keeping a single number correct to the task of moving all of last year's updates off the front page on January 1st. They also generate statistics on visitor usage based on server request logs, updated every 30 minutes.
Here is a pointless Javascript clock: It should remind you of both how late it is and how badly you need to get some sleep and that I am totally Web-2.0.
Updates For The Year
4/16/08: I just think I should put this number up because it's not right for it to not appear in a Google search: 2.82143937212207. Much better than the lame old 2.82 they usually give as the funny constant in the blackbody spectrum's peak.
