I have resurrected an old-ish design since I realized that my desire to be funny or whatever with my little handwritten "frantic" up there was made unfunny by its ugliness. Figure if I'm going to blog again, I should at least have something worth looking at. While poking through ~zempf/public_html looking for an old design to steal reappropriate I came across a bunch of old stuff that reminded me that this blog is nearly 10 years old (though of course due to the fact that I only get the urge to blog once every few years, there's not nearly 10 years of content on it).

In celebration of that fact, I have dug up some highlights from the past for your viewing pleasure. First off is the design I had while I was in college at OSU, so circa late 1999 right after I bought this domain. Note on the left side the tiny b&w photos of me (from a fucking Connectix QuickCam, baby), in which I have bleached hair and a text pager, through which you could send me messages via a form on the website. I'm sure I thought this was amazingly high tech at the time (and really, it was pretty high tech at the time), but looking at it now I feel kinda nutty. This was powered by Blogger, if I remember correctly.

Next up is this design from 2003 or so. I'm sure something else happened in the interim there, but I don't remember what. Anyway, I still kinda like this one actually, though the best part of it is that you can see a link in the upper right there to a (now gone?) post entitled "frantic.org, where have you gone?" in which I was likely apologizing for not actually updating ever (ah, how things have changed). Note that even then I was powered by Movable Type (probably version 2.6 or so).

A bit of undesign followed in this one from late-ish 2004 which was blog-free, but at least had some fun widgets to play with (which still work, go me). Feel free to create an outdated political sign there.

As a basic indication of how lazy I am, the design you're looking at now was up from about 2005 (that picture up above is from Columbus, if I remember correctly, though I suppose being the sky it could be pretty much anywhere, eh?) till I decided to take it down in late 2008 some time. And hey, archive.org has a bunch more old stuff (which also includes some cringe-worthy old writing, but such is the nature of the web), so feel free to go click around there & marvel that I've been doing shitty website designs for a decade. Woohoo.