The webeldotnet Vault
During my freshman year of college, I started learning how to make a website. After many long hours of tinkering, I published my first homepage, webL (subtitled The Eye of the Aardvark), on Miami’s servers. I was so excited about web design that I even gave a (completely improvised) speech in my communications class, explaining the details of my horrendous Animated-GIFS-On-A-Black-Background design and singing the praises of web publishing!
Later, I migrated to Geocities, where I created the clever Fingerprints-In-Frames design. It featured catchy categories like pleasures, treasures, impressions, expressions, life (worth a read), and breath. And it even had its own annoying animated intro!
In October 2000 I purchased webel.net and moved webL there, taking advantage of some free hosting and a simpler email address. For the next year and a half, I experimented with different techniques and arrangements of content … and during my senior year, I even used a daily online message board for my Senior Honors Thesis, Student Taught. I was essentially publishing a blog before I knew that they existed!
After I graduated and landed at CHCA in 2001, I redesigned webL, creating the disturbing Bloody-Decapitated-intro2spection-Edition (also worth a read). Then, in February 2002, I discovered Blogger … the tool I’d been looking for … and for the next four years (utilizing several different designs) I used it to publish daily glimpses into my world. Here was the first:
welcome to the new webL. we’ll see how this works … but i think a glimpse into my mind can only be accomplished through little glimpses into little parts of my mind. like the medulla oblongata. compared to the cerebrum, that’s most definately a little part of my mind. but when you glimpse at it, it’s easy to see that my medulla oblongata looks very much like a stalk of celery. yeah.
top that, slim goodbody.
When I migrated from Blogger to WordPress in April 2006, I decided to start fresh. I wiped out over 1,000 posts, 10,000 comments, and 100,000 visits … partially to have a clean slate, and partially because I couldn’t quite get them to import correctly. Whoops!
But now, I am happy to introduce something new … The webeldotnet Vault! The Vault (listed on the right under “Archives”) is a searchable collection of the first 1,036 webeldotnet posts, primed for your browsing pleasure. Some images and comments have been lost, but the bulk of the content is intact … ready for you to find potentially embarassing situations and revealing moments that I should never have made public.
Wait a second … why am I doing this?
October 24th, 2006 at 5:14 pm EST
wow. your photos are amazing. you commented on my friend brent’s blog and he told me to check out your site because i am also interested in photography…although i’m not nearly as good! i am living in changsha and am working at first normal college so i guess we are almost neighbors. hope you are having fun!
October 24th, 2006 at 11:26 pm EST
Thanks for stopping by, Lindsey. As you know, China is a great subject for photography … so many beautiful images right before our eyes! I’d love to see your photos sometime … let me know if you post them somewhere, ok?
My org, WorldTeach, has 12 teachers at various middle schools around Changsha. If you see a foreigner that looks like a recent college graduate, chances are it’s one of my friends! And I go in to the city quite often … I like Changsha a lot. Especially the Carrefour!
October 25th, 2006 at 7:12 am EST
What ever happened to Claude?
October 25th, 2006 at 7:20 am EST
Check out the entry on November 29, 2005… It’s the first one on the November 2005 page!! WHAT A GREAT PICTURE!!!