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And other Advice

This site comes with no guarantees expressed or implied.
What you read here may or may not be true.
If you get into trouble because of something you read here, it's your fault, not mine.

This site is loaded with opinion and personal interpretation.
Take all this with a grain of salt, or several.
Nothing you read here is Gospel Truth.
I am not deliberately lying, but I easily could be wrong.
I may -- probably do -- interpret the world differently from anyone else.
What works for me will not necessarily work for you.
Don't assume that what I say is true, just because I say it!
Regard this all with some skepticism.

All conclusions are provisional.
"The only permanent condition is change."

Darn it, use your brain!

Even if everything you read here is true, it is also incomplete and distorted. I have systematically omitted the mundane; I have glossed-over my dumb mistakes.

If blunt speech in this site offends you, I'm sorry; please accept my apologies.

Endorsements

Unless noted (unlikely), I have no commercial connection with any person or organization mentioned in these pages. If I recommend them, I do so because I like them, not because they have paid me.

Browsers

I developed this site with Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE). Some pages may display strangely with other browsers. Particularly, Netscape Navigator (NN) may not display color backgrounds in tables, although Opera does. Neither NN nor Opera allows centering a table by enclosing it in a center-aligned paragraph, although MSIE does. NN may not display some fonts as I intended. Et cetera . . . .

Copyright (more-or-less)

This web site is almost all my own work, except acknowledged quotations and maps, a few scavenged graphics, and orphan humor. I am a possessive, anal-retentive jerk, and I wish to retain all rights to my work. De facto, I can't prevent you from copying anything; however, remember where you got it. If you re-use material, please acknowledge the source. Let there be honor among thieves.