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Namaskar!

Or, in other words, welcome to my abode on the net. I think a website is a neat way of putting down what you want other people to know about one's self, and so you are forewarned that the opinions expressed in these pages are viewed through the filter of my mind. Some of the things described here are more colorful than they actually are, transformed by age and perception. Please feel free to drop me a line. If you click the email link on this page, your default email program will open a new message. Please take care to remove the spaces before @ and . in the email address that I put in with the intent to baffle increasingly intelligent bots. However I have never sent email by clicking at an "email me" link in my life, for various reasons, and if you are like me, and prefer to type out the email address, then it is ca851813 at ucf dot edu. 

Updates from my journal

My Genesis - February 2, 2003

And we are talking about me, this website, not the moron who made me...Here he goes.." After days of wondering how it was that just about everybody managed to have a neat little website, I decided to get my own. I used to admire good designs, and have created some web pages just for the heck of it. The way I learnt about html and all that followed was by looking at the source. And the way I built pages was by cutting and pasting, from the best pages in sight. This method worked just fine for a long time, till one day I found pages with CSS and XML along with the regular HTML tags. Now, finally, I have figured out how websites manage to have a uniform look across the pages, and how CSS works. But before you start thinking that this meant I finally buckled and read a textbook and started coding or programming, let me tell you that this design is not entirely my creation. The best things in life are free, or at least open source, and so, as with many other things, I borrowed ideas and files from the open source community to build this site. I got the basic files, including the CSS Style sheet, from the Open Source Web Design site. This design borrows heavily (90%)  from Phlash's design called Sliqua. I changed the color scheme, added a background, changed the fonts, and added a fancy hover cursor, and Bingo! I have a website! I think CSS is wonderful in that it allows you to have good looking effects like rollover links, fancy link underlines and table borders, and allows you to separate these effects from the content of the website. Thus I made the transition to high-tech cut and paste!! I can change the "look" and "feel" of the website by just replacing values at some 5 or 6 locations on the style sheet. Alright, that's enough I guess. But I am like this only, overexcited about certain things, dead to more important things."

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