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"Illness in a Word"
One of my first published stories, April 1991. (65.7 kb)
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"Authorial Intrusion"
A different kind of ghost story, August 2000. (60.7 kb)
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"HOW IT WAS: A Personal Account of the Greensburg Tornado"
July 2007. (3 mb)
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"Calling All Ewoks"
A response to the "Endor Holocaust" theory, October 2006. (58 kb)
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"What's Wrong with ELANCE.COM?"
Web review article, July 2000. (83.1 kb)
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I wrote the code listed below. I was inspired by many different sources, both on the internet and in programming textbooks. (Legalities: the specific javascript programs below were written by me and are freely given to you to use as you see fit; but I make no claims as to their effectiveness, nor do I indemnify you against any loss incurred from their use.) Use them as you want. To download the text files, right-click on the link and select "save target as . . ."

This nice bit of code sorts a visitor's browser and redirects it to the appropriate page.
b-sortrb.txt

Those popup windows I'm so fond of, well, here's the code for them. If it seems familiar to you, that's because there's really only one way to accomplish this easily in javascript.
winpoprb.txt

Here's the code for the multiple rollover effect I use in the opening page to this site. It's long, but it is simple.
m-rollrb.txt

My most creative effort so far. Miffed by the lack of any way to pair images and captions easily, I wrote a javascript slideshow program to do just that. The code's simple and small.
s-show-01rb.txt

I created the artwork below using a variety of graphics programs, most notably PaintShop Pro and RayDream 3D. Use them, if you want. If you wish to download these graphics files, right-click on the link and select "save target as . . ."

This is an animated spinning question mark. It's flat, that is, it was not generated in Raydream. I think I have a 3D question mark which rotates, but I'll have to root in the hard drive to find it. Don't hold your breath.
anitinyques01.gif

This animation was created using RayDream 3D. History gets around, doesn't it?
anihist02.gif