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<center> <blockquote> <em> 'Anyone who slaps a "this page is best viewed with Browser X" label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.'<br> </em>   --Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July, 1996 </blockquote> <HR>  <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"> <img border="0" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401" align="right" alt="Valid HTML 4.01!" height="31" width="88"></a> <br clear="all"> <H1>Philosophical Foo for Thought</H1> </center> A <a href="rants.shtml">collection of thoughts</a> from around the net. Small but growing. <HR> <center> <H1>Fun Things that keep me occupied</H1> </center> I spend a lot of my free time <a href="mushing.shtml">mushing</a>. <P>I also like to canoe, and to fish for panfish with microlight tackle. You think bluegill can't fight? I've been pulled across the lake in my canoe by feisty ones. It's a real hoot... <P>From time to time I check in on <a href="http://www.nspco.com/nspbird.htm" target="_top">Mae and her brood</a>. I also enjoy NASA's <a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html">Astronomy Picture of the Day</a>. <center> <HR> <H1>Information about my pages</H1> </center> <H2>Counters</H2> Several of my pages have counters. You can check them all on a real-time hit count <a href="http://www.visi.com/cgi-bin/countcheck?gyles19" target="_top"> report</a> provided by my ISP. Unfortunately, the only counter support they provide is not Lynx-friendly. <strong>Boo!</strong> <H2>Navigating my pages</H2> The frames structure within my pages is entirely optional. No presentation is lost, and I don't maintain separate pages at all for anything other than the very top page itself, thanks to server-side includes. <P> Most of my pages have self-referential links that will redisplay the pages without frames. If you want to bookmark something of interest, click that document's first heading, then bookmark the full-window location. <P>I tend to go through spurts on things here, I might go for weeks or even months between updates, then I'll get motivated and do a lot of rearranging. If you have any comments about the pages, please feel free to send me a <a href="mailto:gyles19@nospam.visi.com"> note.</a> <HR> <table> <tr><td> <a href="http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/index.shtml" target="_top">Frames Homepage</a> </td><td> <a href="http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/homepage.shtml" target="_top"> Non-Frames Homepage</a> </td></tr> </table> <HR> <a href="http://www.vcnet.com/bms/" target="_top"> Say <font color="red">no</font> to monopolies, BOYCOTT MICROSOFT</a>!<br> <a href="http://www.kmfms.com/" target="_top">KMFMS</a>, one of the Angry Penguins. <HR> <TABLE width="100%" cellpadding=5> <TR> <TH align="right" valign="middle" rowspan="4"> <IMG src="smusa.gif" alt="[U.S. Flag]" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5"> </TH> <TH align="left" valign="middle" colspan="2"> In memory of those who died Sept. 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and on American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 77, and United Airlines Flight 93 </TH> </TR> <TR> <TH align="left"> <a name="remember"> Honoring</a> Marsh & McLennan professionals I've worked with, including: <br> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0109/missing/files/aron.jack.html" target="_top">Jack Aron</a>, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0109/missing/files/hanna.valerie.html" target="_top">Valerie Hanna</a>, Joe Sisolak, Greg Reda, and Cathy Fagan. </TH> </TR> <TR> <TH align="left"> <a href="http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/shattered/" target="_top">Shattered</a> Photoessay by James Nachtewy </TR> </TABLE> <HR> <script src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.google.com/ig/modules/translatemypage.xml&up_source_language=en&w=160&h=60&title=&border=&output=js"></script> <HR> <P> Comments may be sent to <A HREF="mailto:gyles19@nospam.visi.com"> gyles19@nospam.visi.com</A> <P>Last Updated: Tuesday, 20-Nov-2001 09:35:07 CST