About This Site...

This is version 3.0 of my web site.

For this version, I decided to use Middleman , a Ruby-based static site generator. I use Middleman to build content, run the content through the Middleman compiler and then push the generated HTML pages to my site’s public directory.

I use a number of web tools to create various effects on the site. See the “Generated by” section of the footnotes at the bottom of this page for a complete list.

I have decided to continue using the Wordpress blog tool even though Middleman has some very powerful built-in blogging features. Wordpress is a hugely popular web framework, it suits my purposes, and there are WP CSS themes and plugins galore.

Web site hosting is done by NearlyFreeSpeech.net . NFSN is a no-frills, DIY metered service web hosting company. I’ve been with them since 2004. It costs me about $40 a year to run the site, including the annual domain registration fee. It doesn’t get any cheaper. The “down side”: you get to do everything yourself, so you need to be a combination web developer and sys admin.

The pictures on the site are from places we have visited at various times - Iceland, Portugal, Spain, UK, Vancouver and Victoria BC, Oregon, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Colorado. Site photography and gallery images by De’Lynne Salley, all rights reserved.

The source code for this site is publicly available at my GitHub location.

This site has been tested against the following web browsers:

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Privacy Policy...

  1. I do not collect any personal or financial information at this site.
  2. I do not do any tracking of user visits to this site nor do I transmit any such data to other sources. I will publish a statement if this policy changes.
  3. A cookie is set when you acknowledge the EU cookie policy. Talk about irony. There may also be some WordPress cookies generated as a result of visiting the blog.
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Acknowledgements...

Real Men give credit where credit is due. Thanks to:

  • all of my professional colleagues over the past 40 years, who are too numerous to mention. Thanks for your support and for all the happy hours (pun intended).
  • the Middleman team for putting together a very nice Ruby-based static site generator.
  • I'm no longer a fan of Twitter (or any social media to be honest), but the Twitter Bootstrap team has done a great job in building a remarkable CSS styling framework for those of us with no sense of aesthetics. If the site looks good, it's due to Bootstrap.
  • my wife De’Lynne who is a great photographer and artist. All of the images on the site and the oil paintings in the gallery are her creations.
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