Greetings

Hi, all! It's July 27, 1997 (or so). And guess what! I've decided to pick up stakes and move. Tripod has been wonderful for providing free space, but since setting up operation here, I've changed ISPs and gotten 5 megs of my own space.

There are a couple of other practical considerations prompting the move. One is the growing feeling that search engines are simply not accepting all sites from a given domain; thus, a site on Tripod, which offers a lot of free spaces, stands less of a chance of making it into a search engine than a site on a local ISP. Another is the addition of ads to the Tripod pages.

However, never fear, I've left redirect pages on all my Tripod pages, to ease in the transition. (The links in my below chart are also correct.) I'm also leaving my now-defunct book club. And I'm considering what other project would be good to put here. Something fun, something frivolous . . . e-mail me if you have a suggestion?

But for now, you can either go to my new index page at http://www.his.com/~allegria/index.html (you can also do that without the tilde, if you're so inclined), or just check out my links below.

I hope this isn't too inconvenient for y'all -- but I'm looking forward to the new domain!

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My Friends	Biographical Info	Community
Internet Tools	Compendium of On-Line Book Discussion	Net Reads
Homepages	Rachel's Book Club (currently inactive, but available for review	And Everything Else

There have been teacups put in the dish drainer since March of 1996.

Graphics courtesy of Amber's Free Art

What's In a Name?

A Special Note about Color

Now, you might be wondering about the colors I'm using. I hope that they show up with a visited link color of burgundy, the same (or close to) my widgets. If visited links show up as bright purple, you might want to consider getting Netscape 3.0 (no, I'm not providing a link there -- I'm sure you can find your way). I just recently found out that, under an 8-bit platform, using Windows, Netscape 2.0 (and associated family) displays a very limited palette of text-and-link colors. (My thanks to Denis Wieger for clarifying this for me.)

Musings on the Web

When I first got this Web page, I tried to think how to best articulate my feelings on the Web, and on the drive to get a page that seems to strike so many of us. Finding myself utterly inarticulate on the subject, I gave up and launched into the typical "hi, world, here I am" greeting.

Luckily, someone was able to come up with the right words, and the right expression, so please go read this poetic page.

Good stuff, huh? She (Julie) has a terrific home page, too.

I guess what the Web reminds me the most of is the AIDS quilt, which is one of the most beautiful monuments ever created. Homemade, individual, celebrating the absolute unique contribution that each of us provides to the world.

In addition to celebrating our unique personalities and contributions, Web pages also represent us at our best. We reach out, we discuss, we provide pathways and suggestions and guideposts to one another.