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Dillweed.com is the product of one student's desire to know how to put up an Internet site way back in 1997. At the time, the Internet was quite the rage and it seemed unspeakable that a student of telecommunications management would graduate without knowing how to put up a site. Hence, Dillweed was born. Why Dillweed? Because I was driving in rush hour traffic when I decided to put up the site and it was first word which came to mind. Imagine that. No marketing dollars wasted there.

What's been happening with Dillweed lately? Not much, frankly. I graduated, got married and moved to Germany in 1998 where I am now a systems engineer for an eCommerce travel site. Unfortunately, I haven't had time to do anything with Dillweed since moving to Germany. The result is I am now using Dillweed to host my personal bookmarks site. This works for me. I find that when I'm online I spend most of my time in the 'search' and 'online news' sections. The "Take Me Away!" link opens a window to random sites on the Internet (courtesy of Yahoo.com). The other sections seemed worthwhile at the time but I don't spend as much time with them. I see in my logs that other people use them so I leave the site pretty much as it is.

You may wonder why I'm still using frames for Dillweed. The answer is, now that I know better I don't have time to redesign the site. Sorry. Sometimes as you navigate to one of my links (for example, 'latimes' under 'newspapers') and the site breaks out of my frames and completely screws up your Dillweed browsing experience. Sorry again. This happens because some sites (such as the latimes) put javascript in their site which screws up sites like mine. They do this solely out of vindictiveness and I can't do anything about it. I work around this by making Dillweed.com my homepage and I just reload my homepage. Not very elegant but it works for me. I know this is annoying for you but, as I said earlier, I don't have time right now to fix this.

The reason I don't have time is that my wife and I are not wasting a moment while we're here in Europe and we travel like we're frightened gypsies. We've been to nearly every country in eastern and western Europe and now we're working on Asia. Our latest trips have been to Vietnam, China, Thailand and Croatia. The picture on the front page of Dillweed is me drinking a beer at an outdoor cafe in Dubrovnik. This seemed like a suitable candidate for the Dillweed of the month, so I put it up.

In the meantime, Dillweed has its purposes. I think this is one of the best places to find search engines and dictionaries on the net. I base this opinion on the fact that I go to Dillweed when I need these resources. Your results may vary. Take a few moments and look at the 'Scout Report' section if you're looking for an excellent survey of academic resources on the web. The 'film' section seems to be popular, go there if you want to find the names of every movie Annette Bening played in before she married Warren Beatty. If you're completely bored, click on the prairie dog at the upper left hand portion of the main page. This takes you to a random site on the Internet.

--DILLWEED