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Thursday, September 11, 1997. This is where the intro should be.
I don’t really have an intro, although if you pressed me, I’d say this was it.
I’m not sure what I should write for the intro. First I’ll have to decide what
my site is, and whether I’ll continue doing it. And who will I tell about it?
World-wide WWW distribution. I’ve had my own Web site since 1994; I wonder
why I haven’t done more with it.
You can reach me by email (eventually) . Since this email address appears on the web, it gets spam- so it’s not
my main address, and I don’t check it very often -- maybe once a week
or so,
so
please
be patient.
If you don't hear back, the spam filter must have mistakenly caught
your email, and a minor re-write should fix that issue. The 1997 date is a bit of a ruse- it’s actually Winter 2003 now. The older date reflects my ambivalence about personal home pages. But the only content newer than 1997 is some minor editing on this page. When I registered kimhill.com in 1996, having your own name as a domain was unusual- thus my reference to vanity on the home page. This site is still experimental, so be careful. There is little in the way of navigational aid and nothing to be learned about good HTML. A fair piece of the “Photos” section was just retooled a little from its 1994 incarnation. Kind of tacky -- early web-tacky. Speaking of 1994, check out this museum piece: a web site I did for Mario Cuomo’s last NY gubernatorial campaign, complete with a quaint press release in which I proclaim the web to be “a new way of campaigning.” Some links aren’t functional anymore, but it’s a trip down (pre-Netscape) memory lane. There's also a quote of mine in the New York Times about the (first) Internet bubble. “Other” is pretty cryptic- but you can check out some odd stuff there, including some of my academic work from the University of Freiburg. If a psychoanalytic interpretation of “Death in Venice” - in German - sounds interesting, you’ll want to see this. At one point, my paper was Google’s #1 listing for “Der Tod in Venedig,” and if you search for the title along with "psychoanalysis" in German, it's still #1. I can only attribute this to a failure of the German educational system. Given this novella’s importance in 20th century German literature, I hope that Prof. Renner is proud of me... For pure, post-modern enjoyment, it’s hard to beat AltaVista’s computer-translated English version. Unfortunately AltaVista apparently gave up after translating only a small portion. But try it - it’s less canonical! And check out the “Save the Children” web site - a favorite project of mine. I served as the part-time producer from its inception in 1995 until 2000. I remember the first time I uploaded some of the children-to-sponsor photos. With all the hype and marketing-speak of our wonderful Online/New Media industry, it was almost shocking to be doing something that would actually help needy human beings. I mean, I enjoy extending brands through New Media as much as the next guy, but this was a revelation...
The latest link of interest is the American Express CyberSurvey, a
site I produced with my partners. It has 400 pages, over 4,500 links, and a fair
number of Java applets used to create graphs. It was originally designed for
installation on hard disks, and then re-tooled for public use on the web. To
take advantage of the Java graphs, you’ll need a fast computer and a good
Internet connection. PS - Oops- American Express has apparently taken this
site down. Pity.
Coming soon: A QuickTime clip of my old feature film appearance as a street punk ruthlessly gunning down an opponent.
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