About this site: this site is a personal website, including a personal weblog, a political weblog, and a collection of other items that are added to from time to time. In this section there is an overall graphic site map, some information about the author, a history of the journal / weblog life as it happens (which is the main focus of this site), a list of ten things in ten categories that mean something to the author, and a list of credits of various types about this site.