The purpose of this blog is to share things that are not appropriate for my other blogs, such as personal information, writings, quotes and humor. The initial entries will be reposts from pages of my previous website at www.msoe.edu/~westr or people.msoe.edu/~westr, which is no longer online.
I attended the Milwaukee School of Engineering in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 2000 to 2004. MSOE provided it students and alumni with space on its servers for personal websites. I decided that since I had the space available, I might as well use it, and began to build a website in late 2002, going online in November. Some of the initial content included some personal information, writings, quotes and things I found amusing.
After I graduated in 2004, I began rebuilding my website, bringing the new-and-improved version online on November 26, 2004. I initially left the humor items off the new website, but restored them on March 21, 2006.
On June 27th, 2012, MSOE stopped hosting personal websites for its alumni, and my website went offline. I still had all of the files on my computer and was considering simply rebuilding the site with a new host, but couldn’t make up my mind how to proceed.
After buying an Android smartphone in December 2013, I decided I wanted to rebuild my website in some form. In June 2009 I had started two blogs on Blogger: AutoTour for car profiles, and ScreenViewer for TV and movie reviews. By the summer of 2010 I had essentially abandoned them, but I thought the format would be a good way to bring back my website content and pictures. So I created PlacesPages for the information from the old PLACES pages, and TrainPages for railroad-related content. There were still some things on the old website that didn’t fit in any of these other blogs, so I created this general blog for them.
I plan to post information from pages of my old website in the order they were originally posted online. Once all of my previous content has been posted, I will begin adding new content. I eventually plan to begin posting to AutoTour and ScreenViewer again as well.
I hope you enjoy this blog and take a look at my others as well. I have plans for a lot of pages in the future. Thank you for visiting.
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