March 15th - Welcome to Aranai A7

Welcome to the new and improved Aranai A7. It isn't quite 2007 yet, but 9 months can go by in a flash, and who knows when I'll have to time to overhaul the site again. The 2006 version of Aranai wasn't the cleanest or easiest-to-navigate, so I decided I'd jump the gun a bit and get a new design out the door now. Mathematically, it all adds up: the last three versions of Aranai have been a few months late, and now this one is 9 months early.

In addition to looking fairly spiffy, A7 is notable for being the very first version of Aranai to comply with both the XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.0 web standards. No more layout tables or ugly, browser-dependent code (though there may be some ugly, browser-compatible code). The site has been tested in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Firefox 1.0+, Opera 9 and Safari, and should behave identically in all of them.

The site is now divided into the following sections:

• Home: this page. News, updates and other information will be posted here.
• Work: my resume and online portfolio. Anyone need a website built?
• Code: code snippets and personal programming projects in a variety of languages.
• Words: my fiction writing. Short stories, novels, etc.
• Pixels: my 2D and 3D image gallery. Take a look, let me know what you think.
• About: what Aranai is, why it is, where it came from and where it's going.

Some Latin text: Claritas est etiam processus dynamicus, qui sequitur mutationem consuetudium lectorum. Mirum est notare quam littera gothica, quam nunc putamus parum claram, anteposuerit litterarum formas humanitatis per seacula quarta decima et quinta decima. Eodem modo typi, qui nunc nobis videntur parum clari, fiant sollemnes in futurum.