My name is Elaine Nelson; I’ve been keeping this site in one form or another since 1998. I currently live in Olympia, Washington USA with my husband and our cats. You can contact me through epersonae - at - gmail - dot - com.
This site is part personal journal, part log of interesting links, part experimentation zone.
self-portrait, July 2009
I write about my personal life, although there’s plenty that I leave out. I write occasionally about my professional life, but not about people, and of course nothing I say here should be expected to have any relationship to official policy of my employer, etc., etc., etc.
I curse from time to time.
Everything I write, and all the photographs that appear here, are copyright me. Except where they’re comments from somebody else, in which case everybody retains their own rights. Whee!
This site is created using WordPress. The “Snapping Links” category is fed by del.icio.us. The original Snapping Links was a whole separate blog, back when I was using Moveable Type. But it was too much bother. The photos that appear on the right-hand side of every page are fed from flickr. Someday I’ll bring back the Media Diet feature of this site, when I get back to working on all the crazy ideas I have for it.
The current design, as of Fall 2006, is inspired by colors used in Prairie style interior decorating, an article about making good gradients, and this pattern by Squidfingers. Plus the rule of threes, sorta kinda.
The whole thing should be valid & accessible HTML, with CSS for the visuals, and a dab of DOM Scripting. If you have trouble with anything, tell me what happened and what browser you were using, and I’ll see what I can do.
