This website has been due for a redesign for years. I first registered the domain in May 2003, and used a WYSIWYG web design editor, Namo WebEditor to create the pages. It was easy, but only if you do not strive for coding perfection. Now, I don’t claim to be able to produce perfect code, but the more I learned about coding, the less I liked what I did here at Grump’s Place. Then the problems came… » Read the whole entry »

This was originally one of the pages of the very early version of this website. Way back in 2003. Here it is reprinted for my enjoyment – and maybe yours too.

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I love computers – software, hardware…
I prob’ly spend way too much time on my computers, but they are just so fascinating. I got my first one in 1991, intimidating as Hell, but needing something to help me keep the books. It wasn’t long before I was fiddling around with the settings, trying to squeeze more performance out of a 386DX with 1MB RAM, a 4MB HDD and running MS-DOS 5. Then I discovered something quite different from my pet peeve about working on cars » Read the whole entry »

Nestled in the nether regions of My Documents was a copy of the first blog post I ever did. Although this is January 2008, I time-stamped this at the same date and time this file was created. Click the image there on the left to see what it looked like back then. What you see below is word-for-WordPress. The only thing I changed was the email link at the end – it now links to my official contact page. Sorry. I know it’s bad, but remember, this was new to me in 2003 and still new to the World Wide Winternet back » Read the whole entry »