I created my first web site about 10 years ago and it has lain fallow for the last 5 years at least. This recent decision to update it was caused, more than anything else, by the fact that I just finished teaching myself rudimentary CSS and was eager to practice my newfound skills on a live website.

I have been asked, by the less technologically infatuated, why anyone would want to create a website and put all their personal interests on display to an uncaring world.

I'm not certain of the answer to that. The popularity of Myspace, Facebook, and a plethora of dating sites suggests that the massive popularity of such an activity speaks for itself. But why the attraction? For all the obvious exhibitionism of personal sites and blogs, there's something strangely intimate about them. I have my privacy, you have yours. I don't know who or where you are, yet I can share my inner dialogue with you and--wham--there's a connection.

It's almost like having a secret.