OK, Folks, you asked for it...
You now have Mike Webb
on the World Wide Webb!
Welcome to Mike Webb's Portal to the World Wide Webb. (Hey, folks--I
didn't make that cornball phrase up. Others did, and I'm just running with
it. Serves some of y'all right for all the "Spider Webb" cracks you made
when we Webbs were kids.) As I develop my site, this home page will serve
as the portal to my varied interests and the different aspects of my life.
There'll be places to go, people to see, things to support. Things that you
may not have been aware of before, but have become an important part of my
life (much of it not by choice, but by the various struggles I've had to
face). My desire is not to create another "cutesy home page where you can
see my collection of Beanie Babies" (in my case it'd be penguins anyway--GO
LINUX!), but a place where you can leave feeling you've gained something
by your visit to the World Wide Webb.
I support the "Best
Viewed With Any Browser" campaign; if my pages don't come up quickly
and make sense on my old copy of Netscape 3 running on a low-end 486, on
Lynx or via ACCMAIL (Accessing the Internet by E-Mail) means, they get
overhauled. No frames. No Javascript. No Shockwave Flash. Few or no sounds.
A limited number of fast-loading graphics. The focus: good stuff to enrich
your life as you view this site and to enrich mine knowing I've helped someone
else.
Areas I intend to develop include;
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"Just Which Mike Webb *IS* This?" Mike Webb
is a moderately common name, so you'll have a chance to know which one of
all these Mike Webbs I am. HEY! If I start getting contacts from other Mike
Webbs out there, I just might set up a section called "Is *THIS* the Mike
Webb You're Looking For?"
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Childhood Cancer and its devastating effects
on parents and children alike. Sites for support and sites where you can
make a difference. As a start, check out the
Association of Cancer Online Resources
(ACOR).
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A permanent home for the James Edward Webb page;
my tribute to my son who passed away at 8 years old fighting leukemia.
(DONE! As of March 22,
2005.) His memorial
page also continues to be hosted at
The Miracle Kids
Site. I am grateful to Ken and Sandy Beckert for the web support they
gave to James' cause during his five and a half year struggle against "the
beast", their support in hosting James' personal page while he lived as well
as continuing to host his memorial page.
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Support for Bereaved Parents. The death of a
child before his/her parents has been described as an "unnatural death".
Certainly it is a grief like none other. Two organizations that assist bereaved
parents are the Compassionate
Friends and Bereaved Parents
of the USA. At the BPUSA site, there's a wonderful page called
"For The Newly
Bereaved" to help someone who has recently lost a child.
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Mental Health Awareness. Too many people in
this so-called "enlightened" age are still bamboozled by Sigmund Freud, whose
basic tenet (as oversimplified by American psychiatry) was "your mother did
it to you." Others think that a mentally ill person just needs to "snap out
of it" or get a good kick in the butt, then they'll straighten up and fly
right. Mental illness is a brain disorder, an imbalance of the brain's
functioning just like diabetes, goiter, PMS, abnormal shortness (or tallness)
and many other things are malfunctions of other organs of our body. It's
past time to put aside the stigmas of yesterday and look at the malfunctioning
brain on the same terms as a malfunctioning liver. For more information,
go to the website of the National Alliance
for the Mentally Ill.
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My Pet Peeves, especially of computing and the
computing world; the power of the command line and the advantages (!!!!)
of DOS, the deceit of Bill Gates and Microsoft
(this generation's Rockefeller and Standard Oil), MIME (Base-64) binary encoding)
etc.
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The truth and relevance of Jesus Christ to our
present society and the lies that have so often excluded His message from
the public marketplace of ideas and the governance of this country.
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"Niche" Computer Files that perform tasks that
some people still need to do (can't get the files off your old Tandy 2000
disks? Hang in there.) or perform tasks with a tiny fraction of the computer
power required by the current generation of Microsoft bloatware. Why on EARTH
we take a computer that has more power than all of the computers that sent
man to the moon and WASTE most of its power slogging through needless graphical
prettiness and sloppy, bloated programming is beyond me.
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Friends and Fiends from various times in my
life who I'd love to catch up with, but have no idea of how to reach.
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....and a bunch of other things I'm not thinking of
right now.
Welcome to the World Wide Webb!
I Hope You Find It To Be a Blessing to Your Life.
My email address is "afn15029 AT afn DOT org". Friends are welcome. Trolls
and spammers aren't (which is why I had to change my address to a munged
form that people can figure out but spambots can't).
Trademarks referenced on this site belong to the respective holders and are
being respected, with or without a [tm]. If you are the registered holder
of trademark rights to "The World Wide Webb", send me the proof and I'll
come up with something else to call this site. (P.S. If "The World Wide Webb"
is a trademark infringement, you're going to be busy!)
Mike Webb's Portal to the World Wide
Webb
Version 1.05 - Prepared 2002-02-24, Last Updated 2005-09-24
