Thursday, April 9th, 2026
Over the coming days and weeks, I want to update my website frequently and realize my decades-long dream of being a real "webmaster." I'm going on a new journey; I hope you will join me and get some value out of the material presented here, provided, of course, that there will really be any.
Although I've made attempts to start a website several times before, it never quite worked out, either from my being too self-conscious to want to continue, plain shyness, or whatever else, but my feeling is different now. Before, I'd said I wanted to "conquer the Internet" -- like it was a hostile territory, or a place unfamiliar to me -- but in fact, the Internet is something like my home. I have met so many people here, lived so much of my life "online" (whether for good or ill), and after twenty years contemplating the matter I feel ready to begin contributing something to it myself. I will write plainly now; so much for continuing to go on being enigmatic: The greatest personalities in the past all wrote their works in language anyone could understand.
Mars has lately entered the sign of Aries, so let's say today is a good day for an update. Presently, the plan is just to build out a framework and be prolific. Soon, I want to write a good mission statement, maybe something similar to the
Yesterweb manifesto and galvanize some fresh enthusiasm for
The Future of the Independent Web.
-Hermitage