Hello, world. My name is Alex.
This site is my personal website. It went live on July 20 2007.
As of this writing (August 2007) I am 18 years old. There is so much I could say here, however what specifically to say (or write, as the case is) is a mystery to me. I am getting ready to go to community college. I haven't decided on a university yet, and I need a stepping stone after Homeschool.
Also, please note that this website is still under construction. You could even say it is in "beta" (like so many websites out there). I did not build this site in a very traditional way, and consider portions of it quite experimental.
You see, unlike normal sites, which use a traditional database with tables, rows, and columns, my site is table-free. Every piece of text is a separate entity, and these entities are then connected to each other. This system is very flexible, but can also have performance difficulties, seeing as it may take over one thousand MySQL queries to generate a single page. Caching and other techniques (including lumping queries together) help lower this, but due to bugs and the fact that the hosting machine has a constant 50%+ CPU usage and ultra-high latency, the site can sometimes function quite slowly.
Therefore, there may be some instability, or, more likely, performance problems. Please forgive any you run into.