• This site's goal is to present a journey.

• The design is two-fold:
  
  1. The haphazard presentation of thoughts and associated links (as represented in the Sayings/Dreams/…).
  2. The structured links to the sites I've found most useful (found in the dropdown menus on the home page).
  These two methods are in keeping with the dual nature of the human mind (the right/left brain, artistic/scientific approach). This site was created out of a need for a peaceful yet powerful home page that gave easy access to my interests.

• Most of the links are to content-rich sites, but there's a few links-to-links (ugh, indicated by a succeeding dash "-") that are useful. Everything on this site is pretty much just a click-scroll-click away. This is very much a work in progress.

• The little subscript (sometimes superscript) beside a link indicates the month that section underwent a major update. (Yeah, it's kind of ugly, but less intrusive than some spinning/blinking "new" graphic.)

• { }, [ ], and ( ): A { } indicates a link to another topic, A [ ] indicates a link to another page on a related topic, A ( ) indicates a link to the same page, a link without brackets usually indicates a link to another site. (Sometimes aesthetics wins out over functionality though.)

• Want to use some of the info on this site? Most of what's here is available elsewhere, and is credited to the original author (when known). The arrangement and structure, however, is (to the best of my knowledge) unique; and it is this that I "lay claim to," as well as any/all original ideas. If you want to use what's presented here, just link to it (why duplicate what's already been done?). That having been said, this still needs saying: Use of the structure and/or information on these pages on your non-commercial site requires a (non-buried) credit-link back to this site. Commercial use requires authorization from the Author  (just ask, I'm fairly easy-going). If you link here, it would sure be cool to know; it also provides a way for you to be informed if this site moves elsewhere. (Your Email will be kept strictly confidential.) Want a link-button? Here's the standard button-size GIF (88×31 pixels, 3KB) and HTML/URL (Don't you hate TLA's? [Three Letter Acronyms]):

<A HREF="http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/redriver/422"><IMG SRC="mana.gif"></A>
or, without the graphic:
<A HREF="http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/redriver/422">mana's terse start</A>

• Instructions for the Home Page: The dropdown menus will automatically take you to whatever site you highlight. The bottom-left box is the search box, just type in whatever word or phrase you would like to perform a search on, then press the <Enter> key. To use an individual search engine, just choose it in the bottom-right dropdown menu. (These methods don't work on some older browsers, of course; different browsers can sure behave... weirdly, nuff said).

Best Viewed at 800x600 (most of the pages look OK at 640×480, although a fair amount of scrolling is necessary), but it should be tolerable on most settings (it's about as flexible as you are ;-) This site is mostly browser-independent, but makes heavy use of Java (thank you SUN).