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Welcome to None O' The Above.
Our army of slave elves have been whipped ceaselessly day and night to provide them the proper motivation to code this site. It seems we were not whipping vigorously enough, and they have produced this, rather than the epitome of online interactivity we politely requested.
Fear not though, for we have a plan to correct this travesty in a timely fashion: we shall whip them harder.
Don't worry, they like it. Honest.
Until they correct their errors, please enjoy the random assemblage of oddities and curious that have been gathered here for no particular reason. Who knows, maybe there's something useful here; but we doubt it (the elves just aren't that clever, yet)
Question, comments and remainders can be sent to Rev. Dan Langman at noneotheabove@lavabit.com.
I want to start this by saying that this site has a long and storied history, full of mystery and intrigue, but that would be a lie. Its history is not all that long, even by web standards, being only about three years old. And the mystery and intrigue are just wishful thinking on my part; more like, indecision and frustration.
I don't really recall what this site looked like initially; I went through a number of different designs, before settling on one that lasted all of two to four months. It was going to be some kind of non-interactive blog/news commentary site. Why? I don't know. It seemed like a good idea at the time. But as with all temporaly sensitive good ideas, it failed, and not in the good, epic way. Rather, after an initial burst of enthusiasm, it faded from my list of priorities, and was left to languish in digital limbo.
When I came back to it, I decided to change the layout and design. Maybe that would renew my interest in the site. And it did, for a time. The site expanded, photos were added, quasi-essays of dubious value (which still haunt these pages) could be read, and half-hearted attempts at web-comics with no real message, or underlying purpose were created. Again, after a couple months, my interest petered out, save for an add-on that I had not initially considered important: technical help and guides.
Even while the rest of the site died a slow death, all over again, the page dedicated to the linux kept growing. It was soon joined by a page dedicated to the gopher protocol, where I tried to assemble all the information I could about the venerable old protocol that so few now remember. But despite this, I still thought the site would serve as a launchpad for a web-comic.
Thus after about six or seven months, the site underwent another redesign, to be brought in line with my new vision. Paging Lazarus. Lazarus to the front desk please. Needless to say, the comic went precisely nowhere, and the site continued to languish, with only the linux page still being updated (by this time I had found pretty much everything there was to find about gopher, so the page did not need to be updated all that much, save for grammar). I tried to add more photos, but I kept putting it off for one reason or another: insufficient space, photo host indecision, and other less important excuses.
In the end, Lazarus died again, only to be resurrected with the linux (and other technical pages) at its heart. It had a spiffy new high-contrast look, with fancy graphics in corners, and ghosting under the text, as partial backgrounds. This lasted about five or six months, before it was paired back into something more spartan. And from then it remained spartan until about the middle of August 2007, when a whole bunch of garish stuff was added that served absolutely no purpose what so ever.
Quasi-regular updates occurred until about October, or November of that year, when the last post in the blog was made. The site then went stagnant until January of 2008, when I excised all of the technical pages, and moved it to its own domain: Medius Rete.
From that point, this site truly languished; I paid no mind to it at all, even going so far as to consider dumping the domain name altogether. But a couple days of thought, and I decided to resurrect the site again, as solely a personal site, dedicated primarily to displaying photos, and whatever rants I compose, all presented in a gloriously super-spartan fashion.
This site is certainly not going to win any awards, or shatter anyone's world view, but as a hobby, there are worse things to do.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
This site makes use of a small amount of javascript (courtesy of StatCounter) in order to gather statistics about usage (mostly just to satisfy my curiosity). It plays no role in content display and/or management, so surfing this site with javascript disabled won't change anything.
Hosting is courtesy of 110mb.com.
And for those that are interested, the IP Address is: 66.197.252.182
For the first time in a while, a webcomic has been added to the links page. This marks a startling departure from the last couple updates where I have been mecilessly excising the dull and un-funny. All hail the Tree Lobsters!
Happy New Year! Yes folks, the site is not dead yet. In fact I have actually made a couple updates Ɣgranted, I had made most of these back in November 2009, but I could not upload them and then promptly forgot about the---until now). So what has changed? Well---not much. I verified some links; switched to HTML 5 and; replaced the table of 'Past Continents' images on the 'Physical Earth' page with a big kick-ass image (whici is likely to change slightly in the future, if only because of its size---sorry dial-up users...)
Well---it seems as though I've been neglecting this site for the better part of two-thirds of a year. I would have gone for the full 365 days, but Social Services threatened to take my domain away, so---I'm back. The dead links have been swept away, or corrected (curse those people who keep moving their pages), and the Photos page may finally see some actual photos! Shocking.
Once again the Physical Earth page is the beneficiary of my attention. It is the recipient of a brand new, updated Plate Tectonics map! Version 2.0! It also seems that I'm being stalked by the Lewiston Public School district, from Lewiston, Maine. Obviously my sheer e-awesomeness has finally reached the east coast! Look out Bermuda! You're next.
Very little to report save for some link updating on the Physical Earth page.
The DNS host settings for the site have been changed (not that I imagine many people actually care about this). Details about the whys, wherefores, and hows can be found on the About/Contact page for Medius Rete, under the "Site Updates & Comments for 23 September 2008.
A full month and a half later, and there are still no photos. I should stop promising things that aren't going to happen, but I won't. So, sometime this week, or maybe next week, there will be photos on the designated page. What has been updated is the links. There are now more comics than ever before, at least a third of which are bound to offend.
It seems my plans to have photos up in a timely fashion two months ago, has failed gloriously. I shall put in the time today to reduce a few of them to under 500kb, and try and correct my glorious failure. Other than that, a couple links have been added to the links page.
Not so much a massive rewrite as a house cleaning. Some pages have been removed, likely to re-emerge elsewhere on the web; or perhaps not. Their final fate remains uncertain at this time.
Aside for the change of colours, nothing new to report. I'm still going through the photos, but they should be up sometime by the end of the weekend.
I've finally salvaged the wreckage of my former blog, and have even deemed it worthy to have its own page. This took about five months longer than it should have. Had I know how simple it was to export the blog contents, it probably would have been done last December... Another lesson learned.
The DNS has updated, and the site has finally been moved. I'm still trying to salvage the remnants of the blog, but how to export a WordPress database to txt does not seem to be well documented. Until I can get the old blog up, any links to it will redirect to the Index.
Some minor updates in the form of adding links to the Research Links, and the Links pages. Beyond that, I'm preparing to move site hosts so that I can host files larger than 500 kb, until then (hopefully it won't be more than a couple days), the Photos page will remain an effort in post-modern, existential art.
This update was a long time in coming. It began back in mid January when I moved most of the technical stuff over to Medius Rete, leaving this site somewhat hollow, and abused. Now, after almost half a year of neglect, this poor, benighted site has finally received some attention. Sure, it is going to make the bots and search engines cry, but the clutter and pointless bling (if you could even call the garish decorations that used to adorn these pages "bling") have been excised, and things feel the better for it.