Arborway Committee  Public meetings often turn the promise of "democracy in action" into "exercising one's right to tell public officials to go to hell." I don't do that myself, but I have learned a lot from going to public meetings and watching others do it. And besides, I support a balanced transportation solution for the City of Boston and everywhere else. Which is why one of those meetings led to my involvement with this movement. (My own independent predecessor site is still here.)

Housing at the HSPH  I made this for work. The first web site with a purpose that I ever made, and for a long time the only one I ever "finished."

Commencement Corner (temporarily de-linked because what's up there isn't mine anymore)
I made this for work too (though I had no hand in the content). It's done now, but for a while it changed weekly, so if the School of Public Health commencement is the kind of thing that interests you, well, you can try a new exciting installment each week.

Jimmy Carter's Interactive Guide to Canada  The second web site I ever made, back in 1995, before you were born. Re-posted in 1997, then lost, and finally recently rediscovered (see "Space Junk" at right). I include it here as a sort of memorial to the web of a different era, or at least as a memorial to me.

The Original Item...  The first site I ever constructed, earlier in 1995. This was when web sites were made by writing HTML code on a piece of paper, eating it, and sticking your tongue into the computer. Many of the links are now dead. Try them and see.

...and the Much Improved Version  The rebuilt site I made at the end of '95, in my waning college days. Shortly after making this beautiful thing, I apparently decided a couple of years in retail was a good next step. I never was good at the decision thing. Again, many of the links are dead. Can you guess which ones? I bet you can't.

895  I forgot I had this. It's an idea I was playing with last summer. I never went back and finished much of it, but I still might. It's basically going to be about the pit in my stomach when I see sturdy pieces of technology die.

SPACE JUNK I've got things all over the internet, it seems -- little bits of sites I began and never finished, only to have them sit out in cyberspace until a cleaning cycle of some kind removes them. In some cases, it takes years. My Jimmy Carter thing was sitting in a forgotten location for over four years before being rediscovered and brought out of the basement of the web. I had lost the password, and there it sat, fossilized. It's always good to do a periodic search for your name on various search engines. Who knows, maybe you signed a guestbook back in the 80's that you forgot all about. What, you don't remember the 80's?