This site is really several sites. Each of my areas of interest has its own section, from chess to cryptic crosswords, and computer programming to solving anagrams.
These sections have been developed at various times over the last 12 years and reflect my expanding knowledge of web design and coding. My very first web pages (1996 Canadian Closed Chess Championships) seem incredibly primitive now.
Some sections of this site are not finished (and some may never be); others need updating, both for content and for accessibility and design.
Some older pages use tables for specifying the layout; newer ones use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This home page and the section on the Unix shell are examples of my current coding style. New pages are all constructed with valid HTML4.01 and CSS2.
The dynamic content, on pages such as the WordFinder and Toronto Transit schedules, is generated by CGI shell scripts.
The Interactive Dishwasher
a.k.a. The Kitchen Sink
Miscellaneous jottings
by Chris F.A. Johnson
Is this a blog you see before you?
As I have written elsewhere, I write very slowly when I don't have a deadline. When I wrote a column for a weekly newspaper, I had no trouble producing the material. When I wrote my book, it was completed in six months. This piece, on the other hand, has been in the works for two or three months.
As I mention at the top of the home page, this site is really several sites rolled into one. The Interactive Dishwasher was started in order to provide some content for the home page. While not intending it to be a blog, that is essentially what it is – if you forget that the word frequently is part of the accepted definition.
As a blog, this section has never really worked. The Interactive Dishwasher has been on line for 6 years, and this is only the 14th posting. That's about one post every five months; hardly frequent.
I recently changed the script that puts the most recent posts on to the home page. Rather than having the three (or more) most recent posts displayed, I now show only one. That will be changing again shortly.
In future, only posts that have been written within a certain period of time, perhaps one week, will be displayed on the home page.