Don't forget to reload each one of my pages to refresh your cache with the latest updates! There's nothing worse than a bunch of stale old pages! Click on the "reload" (Netscape) or "Refresh" (Internet Exploiter) button for each page that you are currently viewing. I also suggest clearing your browser cache regularly. Note that "Netminder" has quit being free and easily useable a couple of years ago (about 2001), and has been replaced by a site called "pumatech". Check it out and see if it's worth anything to you.

Enter unlinked WWW addresses into your browser address bar by copying and pasting them. These will cause you to LEAVE MY WEBSITE!! (but you could press Ctrl-N to get a new browser window first). To visit external websites you could right-click on the link and then select (click on) "Open in New Window". I'm told that including the final slash at the end of the URL speeds page loading. (What's O.J. Simpson's www address? -- ///[Esc])

This site was composed using Netscape Composer ver 4.7. Internet Explorer seemed to gripe about loading the pages, but everything seemed to come up OK. However, for a while there after that, I was getting two syntax error "OK" boxes in the middle of my pages when each would load, when I was viewing with Internet Explorer ver 5 (and with Netscape 4.7). As of May 24 2003, I'm composing and viewing with Netscape ver 7.02 and I'm not getting this anymore. However, the host, Geocities, seems to double the occasional character on me when the pages are uploaded (fighting this is futile) and to cause some other unintended text formatting consequences; it put this whole page into italics today (May 25, 2003), picking them up from the end of the quote above, and I had to fiddle with editing to make it stop.

Note to parents: this site contains some (but not a lot) of "Parental Guidance" material. I have put notes next to the relevant links. Recommended: reading for kids of all ages! (updated Jan 28, 2006)

Also, let me be the first to warn you to make sure that your anti-virus scanner is up-to-date before downloading and executing ".exe" files from strange websites! Even though I upload clean files from computers protected by up-to-date anti-virus scanners, it's possible that they may be infected on the website server.

Get my Public PGP Key (and see more info about PGP): Use PGP to put your email messages into "envelopes" that only the recipient can open (you just need his Public Key)! It's quite easy to understand, install and use the freeware program for Windows (and Macs).

Computer stuff (updated Apr 20, 2006)

Science -- "Scientists have isolated the gene that makes scientists want to isolate genes." - Glasbergen in Funny Times
Also, see Health, Weightlifting subpages within this link. (updated Dec 23, 2005).

Science Fiction and Fantasy (updated Feb 26, 2006 - archived old content in an archive page)

Music (Updated Feb 19, 2006)

I'm so skeptical, I can hardly believe it (updated Aug 21, 2005)

Finance (updated July 25, 2004)

Consumer Protection Info  (updated Sept 11, 2005)

Some days in the Calendar

Business News and commentary (Updated Jan 28, 2006)

acronyms used on this website (updated May 7, 2006)

Site Archive

A note about searching this site: until I get around to embedding a search engine, this and any other specific site can be searched using a "Search Engine" such as Google (http://www.google.com) - just use the Advanced options (which aren''t that difficult) and specify the particular website to be searched. Another good service is Metacrawler (http://www.metacrawler.com) that searches by using multiple actual search engines.

Canadian News: - US News: The Drudge Report: http://www.drudge.com  - Good general reference: Wikipedia (althouggh a good dose of skepticism is needed; there's often a heavy left-wing (anti-property-rights) bias that colors and slants the articles, as well as just plain incorrect material): http://www.wikipedia.org.