About the Site
The Page of Bob is my personal playground on the web. It's where I post my writings, flash creations, and whatever else I feel like. On this site, I like to experiment with practical, but accessible Javascript and CSS.
More information about the site its privacy policy can be found on the Legal page.
A breif history
The following history is for archival purposes, and will likely bore you — fair warning.
The Page of Bob first came to life on September 7, 1997, when I registered for a free account at q_bob.tripod.com. The first site I had up was a single, unformatted page, which contained essentially random scriblings in invalid HTML.
The site progressed, and began filling with various gobs of garbage that
I had written. In its progress, it saw several different designs and
quite a few articles, most of which complete and utter crap, but inexplicably popular
among some groups. There were even several sub-sites that spawned, most of which I
ultimately deemed as unfunny
and destroyed.
Among the casualties of my ruthless cutting were:
- Planet Bob — Created as part of a rediculous school asignment, Planet Bob became a precursor to [dot]Bob.
- Magina — Magina was a supposed to be a parody of a woman's magazine I had read, but most people just found it offensive (which is how I felt about the woman's magazine). I guess the joke was either not funny or just lost, so I destroyed it.
- Ask Dr. Bob — This site was intended to be one in which I answer questions about relationships in humorous ways. But, the Internet being what it is, almost all of the questions were about sex and stupid.
- The Church of Bob — Basically just some random scriblings and a coolish flash animation, the Church of Bob was ousted by the Church of Too Lazy to Update in grand holy crusade that left the Church of Bob a smoldering pile of ash.
- And more — There was probably more; I don't know. I don't remember these things.
If there were any articles or subsites that you particlularly liked and would like to see resurected, drop me a line and if I don't disagree too much, I might re-post old material.
The Blog
On December 20, 2002, I created a subsection of the site called [dot]Bob,
which was a saracastic reaction to all the self-loving
reciprocal link
blogs that do nothing but espouse their own worthless virtues. It's one thing
to keep an online diary for yourself and friends, it's another to think you're
somehow great for doing so. And where do you people get the idea that compete
strangers have any interest in reading about what groceries you bought
last Friday, or why those groceries inexplicably made you sad?
In July of that same year, I spun the blog off as it's own, semi-independent site,
with its own subdomain and content management system. There, it served as a
place where I posted witty
blurbs about my daily life and various adventures,
in a (perhaps failed) attempt at providing entertainment.
In August of 2006, sick and tired of the lack of updates, the Internet rose up
and swallowed the blog, leaving hardly a trace of its former narcissism. Bob is
said to have described its demise as a mercy kill.
The Domain
The page underwent several iterations on tripod, each time hindered with pop ups and banners that Tripod felt the need to add. On May 24, 2003, I finally perchased the PageOfBob.com domain transfered the old site to it. No more would there be banners or popups on my website.
Technical
In it's latest incarnation, every attempt has been made to create reasonably symantic, clean and valid XHTML pages which degrade gracefully under poor conditions.
The site is driven by a custom, template-based content management
system I wrote called SOCM
. Because most of my site either does
not change, or changes very rarely, all management occurs off-line, and
the site is composed entirely of static HTML. This means:
- No SQL database (and thus, no injection attacks).
- Each request requires only sending a file and is thus very streamlined (no unecessary scripting).
- No server-side scripting available to the end-user (to exploit).
This may not suit your needs, but that's why I'm not using my infinite powers to force you to use the system on your site. Anyway, it suit's me and my style quite well.
The Future
World domination.