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Content and design copyright © Bonni Hall, 1994-2008. All rights reserved. No unauthorized use or reproduction is permitted. It's not that I don't love you. It's just that I don't want you to plagiarize my original writings or take my graphics or layout, which I worked very hard to produce. Thanks for understanding.

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Many of the brushes used to make this design are from Obsidian Dawn. communist-occurrence
Milhouse: We gotta spread this stuff around. Let's put it on the Internet!
Bart: No! We have to reach people whose opinions actually matter!
- The Simpsons
The Testimony of St Andrew, Second Prophet of Bonni

The Great Bonni appeared to me and said:

   "Go forth into the world,
      To the furthest corners of the Big 8,
   Tell them the message which I have for them
      The message of the times to come.
   For soon the falcon shall lie down with the wild ox,
      The lion and the man shall be reconciled,
   And a great torment will come forth
      Against those whose head is firmly wedged in their rectum."

   And I said to Bonni: "What is this? Your words are as a clanging bell.
      Can you not speak plain English?"

   And The Great Bonni appeared to be again and said to me:

   "Be silent, and know that I am Bonni,
      She who posesses the huge tracts of land.
   She from whom innuendo gushes forth,
      As the young man has spurts of... growth.
   My sarcasm is always funny,
      But of course you know all about that, don't you.
      Heed not my words,
      And you shall surely be ridiculed."
   And I said to Her: "Your Grace, your message is hard.
      Shall we make here two tents, one for You and one for Muggins?"
   And The Great Bonni appeared again and said:
    "As surely as the sun rises in the morning,
      So you need a life."
   And The Great Bonni left for a while. And I was tossing all night.

Copyright © A.J.Bromage, 1996, used by permission. All rights reserved.
Website Updates
 
Mon, 29 Dec 08
New 404 Page

The other day at the grocery store, I saw something that amused me greatly, so I took a picture of it (with my phone, of course, I mean this is the 21st century and all). That picture is now on the revised 404 Error Page for this domain. The previous 404 page design, which had pictures of Zoë as a baby, crying and Warholised, is now the 404 Error Page at bromage.org.


Thu, 23 Oct 08
Twitter

I have a Twitter page now: http://twitter.com/bonniherself


Mon, 04 Aug 08
Server was down, now it's back

So, we were offline for a couple of days. We thought at first it was some sort of denial of service attack, but we're not sure at this time. We did have a kernal panic (the error log reported it as a bug) and the entire MySQL database had to be rebuilt, but... Well, we don't know. We're just going to keep an eye on it and see.

Please note that I have an "offsite" blog where I post if this server goes offline. If you care at all (and most people probably don't, I know, but for that one in a million who does...), go to http://bonni-soanyway.blogspot.com/ and bookmark it or subscribe to the RSS. Then if you're ever wondering what happened (if this site is offline), you can look there and see if I've posted anything.


Thu, 17 Jan 08
Missycat's Principles of the Universe

I did a bit of rearrangement on Missycat's pages, which haven't had a redesign in... well, a long time. Years. Can't remember how long, but it's a long time. I didn't change the design (which I still quite like, fur and pawprints and all), but I got rid of the Rings page and just put all the rings on the index page, which makes more sense for that particular site.


Sun, 18 Nov 07
Main Page Design Change

Well, the overall design is the same, but as you can see, I've moved some columns around and fiddled with the information a bit. I decided to combine my old "intro" page with this one (it redirects to here now).


Wed, 10 Oct 07
Design update

Yes, this page has been updated. The design is sort of psychadelic grunge-fantasy, and it's about as different from the old monochromatic, Renaissance inspired "scroll" design as I could get....


Bonni in a Nutshell
  • Born 27 May 1964 (you can do the math), member of Generation Jones
  • Redhead and proud of it
  • Woman and very happy to be one
  • Rubenesque (i.e., fat) and perfectly okay with that
  • Very happily married to an Australian bloke I met on the net
  • Opinionated, amusing, intelligent, very modest (obviously)
  • Besotted and doting Work-at-Home mother
  • Writer (amateur) and artist (semi-professional)
  • Reader (diverse subjects including history, biography, linguistics, theology, poetry, spirituality, romance, literature, science fiction, general fiction, nonfiction, parenting, Dr. Seuss, etc.)
  • Ironic, sardonic, sometimes sarcastic, often satirical
  • Expatriate American, living permanently and very happily as an Australian citizen in Melbourne
  • Lover of perfumes of all kinds
  • Animal lover, particularly my cat
  • Survivor of a dysfunctional family and of domestic violence
  • Serious computer geek: I own my own 24/7 network server (on which this and about dozen other domains are hosted), used to work as support tech at a fairly large ISP, I've been on the net since 1993, I've been known to make jokes in hexidecimal code (honestly!), and I once got a motherboard for Mother's Day (at my request)
  • Small business owner/entrepreneur
  • Professional freelance web designer
  • Compulsive communicator
  • Monty Python fan. Bigtime.
  • Christ Follower (tolerent, moderate, well-read, eclectic, mystic, a bit Gnostic, and more spiritual than "religious"), and rather more of an Omnist and a Panentheist than most
  • Lover of history and of art and, not coincidentally, of art history
  • Lover of music (all kinds, from rock to country to Motown to classical)
  • Have listed 100 Things About Me on my personal pages if you care in the least
Some of my Memberships & Causes

The Alannah and Madeline Foundation

[SpamCop.net] [Coalition Against Unsolicited Bulk Email]
[Pixelitas][R.I.G.H.T.S.]
[Realm of Redheads]Project Honey Pot

Oztion: It's Aussie for Auction
 

This Domain in a Nutshell

I've had a personal homepage since early 1994, and bits of that original site can still be seen in my personal pages and in the unicorn pages, as some of the content there dates back that far. My first homepage was designed without graphics, because I only had a text-only browser at the time (I didn't have the right kind of connection to the internet to use a graphical browser, which, in that day and age, was pretty much Mosaic, although I'm not entirely sure when Netscape 1 appeared on the scene). My second homepage, which was graphical, was designed in Netscape 1.1. I did many of the graphics on it myself, using Paint Shop Pro (version 3, I seem to recall).

This domain has been online since May 1998. It was the first domain I ever personally set up, and by "set up" I mean that I registered the domain, entered the DNS information on the name server, set up the virtual domain in the Apache server config, set up the mail aliases, everything. I didn't have the luxury of a control panel. I did it all entirely by hand. Come to think of it, I still don't have a control panel and have to do all that stuff by hand...

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