But I'm a victim of peer pressure. My firends were makingfun of my web page. Not just my web designer girlfriend,but my buddies with butt-ugly geocities pages too. So Iborrowed a book by David Siegel (gag, puke) on somethingsilly he calls "third generation web design" and began tore-work my site to conform to the latest trends.

The latest trends are to use the internet, once the domainof the exchange of ideas and software as a sort of an advertising medium. We all knew the 'net would eventually gocommercial. I just didn't think it would be this fast. Oneday I'm talking about Dr. Who on USENET and before you knowit there are prime-time commercials during the X-Filesridiculing the old school of 'net users as stupid for notmaking money. As if everything has to do with money.

But I'm following the trend anyway. But not entirely. I'mgiving links and stuff to you frames-free and text-onlysurfers. Like you can get to the menuand the personal bits. Andunlike the latest trend, I'm actually providingcontent. It seems like a radical idea to actually puttext and ideas up on the web, especially if they're notabout a product, but I miss the old days, when people linkedto each other instead of just internally to themselves and when gopherwas still a phenomenon. So consider sticking around,the graphics intensive portion is over.