First of all, I'm not (quite) so egomaniacal to assume that this page will be of interest to everyone; far from it. The web, however, serves many purposes, and I've included different sections for different reasons.
This one's easy. Every web page should have jokes on it.
This one's a bit harder to justify. Your humble servant, after all, never went to college, and could hardly be described by
even the most generous of commentators as erudite. My reasons, though, are simple and somewhat selfish.
Through much reading, a great deal of pondering and no little surfing, I'm now reasonably happy with the direction my knowledge of physics is taking.
However, that's not to say that my current understanding isn't riddled with misconceptions. In fact, there are a number of areas that seem downright
paradoxical to me, implying that I don't know as much as I should. This is where you come in. Yeah, you. See something on the page that's, shall
we say, not quite correct? Let me know. Point me at a book, a web page or whatever, and show me the error of my ways. Please.
It's impossible to read a newspaper nowadays without muttering unheard imprecations at any number of people. These people, ususally rich and foreign, are beyond the reach of mere pillory, and thus if falls on innocent passers by to bear the brunt of this invective. Well, no more. It's now safe to walk up to me in the street, secure in the knowledge that there'll be no (well, okay, maybe just less) talk of "that fucker n", where n is a person, a corporation or a country. Or, indeed, simply the drooling dolts that infest some random landmass.
Now, I just refer people to my website. I get to bitch, and no-one has to listen. It is surely the best of all worlds.
Duh. It's a web page.
Is that it? Not quite. These days, it's quite possible to construct ultra-nifty web pages without knowing a line of HTML or Java. However, anyone with an inclination towards programming eschews such methods, sick to death of the myriad dolts out there who claim to be programmers when all they know is some poxy macro language such as Visual Basic. Not for me; this page was written with text editors under Linux. Consequently, you'll probably find a bunch of errors in the Javascript or Java, and indeed some pages that make no sense whatsoever. These are there so I can try out funky new shit; practical applications may follow once I know what I'm doing. For the moment, though, try not to wince as you click on 'View Source,' and bear in mind that we all have to learn somehow and some time.