Welcome to my krusty homepage :)

Yeah, this looks a bit like the Freebsdzine. I didn't rip one single line of HTML code, i simply looked at their page and recreated its style here. I suck at HTML, so this is the best i can do :) Over time i'm sure the look between my site and their's will begin to differ...

One day i hope to take the time to learn PHP and do something real neat. But webdesign really isn't something that i'm interested in. Besides. If i do something cool here, snapper is gonna want me to do it on his site. Or his work's site.

Anyyway. While your here, go click on my projects or journal. Or follow one of those quick links and get off this site ;P

D., 18/2/2000.

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or villafy them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

D., 22/4/2000.

This was originally stolen from a space.com forum posting, which can be found here

I really hate loosing that piece of space history that should have had its right place in the Smithsonian or some other museum one day.

A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. - William Shedd

This is often quoted, and I think it sums up Columbia. If I can be anthropomorphic for a while, I think she would have taken museum duty and done it well - just as she handled every other mission she was given. Much like you I would have liked to be able to walk up and touch her, and I shed a tear for the fact that I never will. But in a way I am happy with how she went out: she was an aerospace plane. She bridged the gap from air to space, and that's where she left us - she was flying, fighting, doing what she was built to do. And then she was gone in a blaze of glory. A Viking funeral. If I can quote Robert Crippen:

"I'm sure that Columbia, which had traveled millions of miles and made that fiery re-entry 27 times before, struggled mightily in those last moments to bring her crew home safely once again. She wasn't successful."

D., 2/3/2003.