Once in a while, I try and clean up the crap that’s been accumulating in my website. I just realized that I built my first website some time in 1998, if not before, and some traces of it still linger on the filesystem today – and also on the Wayback Machine. <\/p>\n
The original homepage – circa 1998 – greeted you like this:<\/p>\n
Welcome gentle reader.<\/p>\n
A bit of background on this website:<\/p>\n
In case you’re wondering what Karoshi means, let me inform you that it is a japanese expression meaning “death by overwork”. It’s fairly representative of the last few years of my life, moreso since I’ve started working towards my master’s degree. An interesting article on Karoshi can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n
This web was setup primarily to showcase my the ever growing amount of pictures in my portfolio. In other parts of my web, you’ll also have a look at my bio and resume.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As a side note, the original title of the website was The Karoshi Archives – which I know now is in bad taste, but I was young and stupid at the time, and still used BLINK and MARQUEE tags and had ALT descriptions as “COOL SEPARATOR BAR”. Oy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Once in a while, I try and clean up the crap that’s been accumulating in my website. I just realized that I built my first website some time in 1998, if not before, and some traces of it still linger on the filesystem today – and also on the Wayback Machine. The original homepage –…<\/p>\n