If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
– Oriental proverb
Acknowledgments
No masterpiece can be created in a vacuum (unless it’s a Dyson). Much as I’d like to claim that this site sprang fully-formed from my head like a kind of digital Athena, that would be quite a snub to the people and resources who helped inspire and create this site. (They’ll all be thanked effusively in my Oscar speech, I promise.)
Graphics
- Carol Gerten’s Fine Art Site: Paintings and fine art.
- Old Time Clip Art: The flying guy.
Fonts
Software
- Adobe Photoshop: For graphics and such.
- Notepad: For hand-coding HTML and PHP.
Browsers
- Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Netscape, Internet Explorer
Coding and Testing
- A List Apart: An online geekmag that has given me more coding advice than I can recall.
- BrowserShots.org: For previewing my site in different browser versions.
- Jemjabella and Tutorialtastic: Whenever I get stuck on something technical, Jem’s tutorials help me through.
- W3 Validator: Because it never hurts to have a little validation.
Hosting
After a couple of notoriously awful hosts (Feature Price and Netbunch), I am now happily hosted with the excellent Blurstorm, where the service is good and the servers run well.
Quotations
- The Quotations Page: Thousands of searchable quotations; very addictive.
- Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Quotations: An oldie, but a goodie.
- The International Thesaurus of Quotations: A hand-me-down, but a worthy one. Thanks, Mom. :)
- My ever-expanding poetry collection: Thank you to Housman, Dickinson, Poe, Shelley, Owen, Millay, and all those great old anthologies.
Namecheck!
This site could not have been created without the inspiration and assistance of these excellent people, products and services:
My husband, my mother, my cat, iTunes, my local library, Emily Dickinson, Salamander (by Thomas Wharton), Scotland, Thomas Andrews, Glade™ scented candles, Sherlock Holmes, Kate Bush, Dorothy Parker, the theme song to I Dream of Jeannie, Tom Lehrer, Jack Lord’s hair, Simon Cowell’s nipples, whoever invented the word “brobdingnagian”, Edward Gorey, The Wicker Man, Luna Lovegood, Guy de Maupassant, Sidney Paget, Laurence “White Rabbit” Weber, Sergeant Neil “Bernie” Howie, my flying monkeys, and Cthulhu. Oh, and Hugh Jackman.
