10 years ago I started this site to (1) learn something, and (2) secure a reliable email address. I\u2019d already been burned by mergers, buyouts and bankruptcies, and knew better than to trust that Free\u2122 webmail would always be there for me. The hosting package came with a webpage directory, so I used it continue learning HTML. I didn\u2019t have any content to speak of, so I uploaded emails I\u2019d written. It was simultaneously public and private: my writing was there for anyone who knew to look for it, kinda like unencrypted email.<\/p>\n
The web was still kinda like BBS\u2019; anyone could find it but you had to know what you were looking for. Then came Google, and blogging tools, and \u2018link monetarization\u2019. The flood gates opened and the web came alive with millions of blogs and search engines and syndicators, competing for links and traffic and eyeballs and advertising revenue and\u2026 with them: a plague of spiders, Black Hat SEOs, webspammers, stalkers and all manner of vermin.<\/p>\n
For a long time I ignored the traffic, the comment spam, the theft of content and bandwidth. Recently I reached a tipping point with the bots: most of my bandwidth was going to the machines. I needed to either squash the spiders or upgrade my host. A buddy likes to say that when faced with an \u201ceither\/or\u201d situation, I always came up with a third option.<\/p>\n
So I\u2019ve decided to diverge from the dominant paradigm, and close off content from the outside world. I\u2019m taking the OpenDNA Project back to it\u2019s roots: It\u2019s going back to being a semi-private, intimate little vanity site. Some sanitized items will be left out in the wild to be found by search engines, just so I can be found, but the real meat is now accessible only to people who want to tell me who they are.\u00a0Please click here<\/a> to login.<\/strong><\/p>\n If you are looking for a favorite rant, it\u2019s inside (augmented by stuff recovered from 3.5\u201d floppies). If you\u2019re looking to find out what I\u2019m about, the resume is inside with hyperlinks and a touch of multimedia. If I\u2019m going to take a run at making a website turn a profit, I\u2019ll do it with LongBeachPolitics.org<\/a>. (Nope. -ed)<\/p>\n Thanks for visiting. Please use a monitored email address when you register. I may want to contact you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 10 years ago I started this site to (1) learn something, and (2) secure a reliable email address. I\u2019d already been burned by mergers, buyouts and bankruptcies, and knew better than to trust that Free\u2122 webmail would always be there for me. The hosting package came with a webpage directory, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[11,61,17],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-internet","tag-meta","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1951,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}