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History
houseofmoran had its first incarnation some time during University. I put together a home page using the newly invented ability to place an image on an html page. On this page, was the 'house of moran', a picture of a house that I wished was my actual home.
It's all fuzzy now, but I think the page was possibly on tardis. At the time, my username was rfc1149. My homedir was almost deleted a couple of times because it looked like a storage area for rfcs.
houseofmoran.com came into being on 2000-10-02 11:50:46.0 {{Btw, I had to look at and manually copy that time because the admin pages of register.com display it as an image. What has the world come to?}}. It lived on an old Sparcstation IPX with less disk-space than their is memory in a video card. I kept that Sparcstation going for some time, until it gave up after an aborted "apt-get dist-upgrade".
It was then that I got it set up on a UML box with the very reliable people at bytemark hosting, where it has stayed until this day.
The content itself has mostly consisted of my writing; I was once very much into writing fiction (I went to classes and everything). This is obviously why I am still a computer programmer, which is no bad thing, both for my income and the literate public. Regardless of the low-quality text, it did help in capturing my lovely wife, Carmen. She is the designer of the portrait that you see at the top; the Handspring Visor#VisorandVisor_Deluxe) has gone, but the lo-fi art lives on.
After delivering my prose (disguised as bad grammar and spelling) the site lay fallow and undisturbed for years. An occasional re-design was attempted, but these only exist on the hard disk of my laptop.
Then came the blog era, where Schnickschnack was born as a means for me to pretend I had an ego big enough to sustain a readership.
Now, it is a wiki and a weblog, thanks to the wonderfulness of oddmuse. At some point, I hope to find the time to, of course, write my own weblog software which will be fab and be called gerald.