Old Content Disclaimer #
You have likely reached this page by clicking on the "old content" disclaimer at the top of a very old post on this website.
Please read this before taking any old content on this site too seriously, or assuming that it necessarily reflects my current beliefs or opinions.
I have been on the internet since there was such a thing, meaning that I'm quite a bit older now than I was when I started. I'm old enough to remember when Cool URIs Don't Change was a big new idea, and old enough to mourn the massive libraries of lost content whose custodians tragically did not follow that maxim, libraries whose loss is greater than the (historically inaccurate, but mythologically compelling) burning of the library of Alexandria in antiquity.
With that in mind, I endeavor to keep this content up as long as I can, so that these URIs can be cool and never change (or redirect to new homes, if they do). That also means, as times change and I with them, that an ever-increasing majority of the content on this website was written by effectively a different person, whose memories and genetics I carry on into the future.
Not every change is an improvement, but every improvement is a change.
I am not proud of everything written on this website. In fact, some of it, I find extremely embarrassing and would never write today. But I keep it around, because I believe that if you truly have no regrets, if you agree with everything you've ever said or done and can find no fault in your own past, then you have not changed, and that is certainly nothing to be proud of.
May we all grow so much in character that we come to regret the things we say today.
