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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.

    Web design by
    Alicorna

    Many of the brushes used to make this design are from Obsidian Dawn. communist-occurrence
    "I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process.... It may not be true, but do I dare take the chance?"
    - Anonymous
    Website Updates
     
    Fri, 15 May 09
    Updated my Personal Pages

    For the first time in... well, a long time, anyway, I updated my Personal Pages. In particular, I updated the 100 Things page, the Q & A page, and the Love page.


    Thu, 29 Jan 09
    Photo Gallery Updates

    The Picture Gallery now has an RSS feed. There are also some new photos and a new sub-album there if you want to wander into the gallery and have a look.


    Fri, 23 Jan 09
    New Unicorn Pages Design

    I got a bit inspired, and totally reworked the design on Unicorns and Thoughts Thereon. Maybe it was because I realised that in just a few months the site would be celebrating fifteen years online, or maybe it was the unicorns encouraging me to make the change...


    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.


    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, historical 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)
    • Monty Python fan. Bigtime.
    • Christian (deeply spiritual, quite metaphysical, highly eclectic, profoundly mystical, a bit Gnostic, mostly esoteric, not at all "religious", and fairly Panentheist)
    • 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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