a very short history of me on the web

Although I had made a few attempts at a personal website before, my first effort began in 1996 when I registered skylarking.com as a domain, a reference to the XTC album of the same name. A few years later, I registered cricketmedia.com to serve as a website for my consulting business. Later, I killed skylarking.com and moved everything to cricketmedia.com, personal or otherwise. So, for one brief moment, things were unified. Then, over the next decade, I ended up with crap all over the place:

• Some stuff on cricketmedia.com, including a web zine I published, my half-assed (or possibly quarter-assed) attempt at a personal website, some of my writing, some of my photos in hand-edited pages, some photo galleries created with Aperture, and other miscellaneous crap
• Some stuff on one .Mac website, including some surprisingly popular Applescripts I wrote and some photo galleries created with .Mac Homepage
  
• Some stuff on another .Mac website that I created with iWeb, including a blog and yet more photo galleries
• And if that wasn't bad enough, yet more photo galleries on flickr

I made several aborted attempts to wire these up into something that resembled cohesiveness, but in the end it was a big mess. In most cases, there weren't even links hooking these incoherent sites together.

So, starting today, any traffic from any of these old sites is now redirected here (and, astonishingly, I still do get web traffic from my old sites, many of which have not been updated in years). For now, my web presence consists of this blog and all my digital photos are unified on flickr. And they actually link to each other. Welcome to 2008.