Unless stated otherwise, all contents of this site is copyright myself, Sara Smollett. I'm open to licensing most and photos under a non-commercial Creative Commons License by request (e.g, for use on Wikipedia, not for your facial recognition training data set).
I've tried to keep this site clean, simple, and navigable. This means legible fonts, high color contrast, wide margins, minimal images (with alt tags and/or captions), a site which is viewable in text-only web browsers, and a sitemap. The HTML and CSS are (were?) W3C standards compliant, and the site has been tested in many web browsers (though not recently). If it looks like this site was designed in the 1990s, that's because it was. :)
I put up this site in 1997 on a college web server, and then moved it in 1998 to my own i486, running Debian GNU/Linux and Apache. I moved and upgraded many times over the years: from one institution to another, from one coast of the US to another (briefly hosted by a friend), from one PC to another, then from one Mac to another, from Debian to OpenBSD to Ubuntu and then back to Debian. Finally in 2020 I stopped hosting myself and migrated to Google Cloud.
The content and design have been expanded a few times as well, but much of the original content remains. The HTML was written using a smattering of text editors (mostly vim, but also pico, nano, and joe at various times), as well as TTH and LaTeX2HTML. There was PHP and a bit of Python, as well as some Python and Perl for page generation and site maintenance.
Icons (JPGs and PNGs, when that was the new hotness) were generated using GraphicConverter. For almost a decade, photos were served locally using Gallery with a MySQL backend; for another decade or so I've just used Google Photos (formerly Picasa).
SSL certificates are provided by Let's Encrypt and/or Google.
Note to students: Plagiarism is not at all appreciated. Seriously, don't do it: you'll miss out on an opportunity to learn, and you'll probably get caught. I've had two professors contact me about plagiarized papers. Teachers: If you believe any of these works to have been plagiarized, let me know.
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(Last updated 2026)