Welcome to Hexar.Net

I designed this website in July 2001 in an attempt to create the "killer" personal website that I'd always said I was going to do. It was supposed to be personal yet professional, and something I could be truly proud of. I didn't want to make yet another webpage with midi music and terrible (not to mention non-tiling) background images.

This website is about a subject I know best: Me. Some people apparently think it's "weird" to have a website just about yourself, but creating a website about something else would probably be too much work.

This website (used to) run off of Apache 1.3 on a cute little Compaq K6-2 533 Linux box sitting in my bedroom. The site uses PHP extensively to generate the content presented here; the table code for every page is included SSI-style. I took the Articles section a bit further--every article is referenced through a MySQL database which is accessed via PHP. Also, check out the Photo Album; it's also database-driven, and does a lot of cool stuff (like thumbnail generation) on the fly. The intense use of technology on this site was difficult to create in the beginning, but has only led to ease of maintenance nowadays.

Enjoy.

	I like Machines that are People. - Hexar Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. - Sir Winston Churchill

Best of Costa Rica:
Photos from the "rich coast."

The Rich Coast:
Our trip to Costa Rica.

• Upload everyone else's EPC v3 photos (slackers)
• Upload everyone's Baja photos
• Finish admin section for lyrics
• Add comment functionality to lyrics (maybe)
• Write a new article; it's been years...
• Upload all my random "photos from other people" somewhere