when I moved from my Greenwich Village loft to my house in Brooklyn. Three years later I still had my Welcome to Lower Manhattan! home page. In fact, I hadn't updated it since 1994. For a cutting edge web guy like me that was pretty pathetic. I was waiting for a design inspiration to hit me on the head like a pigeon with heart failure.

But I'm just a back-end web developer and graphically challenged at best. I could put it off no longer so THIS is the site update.

Mea culpas out of the way, on to content. If you're a software developer living in post-9/11 NYC like me, your home page needs a link to your resume. And maybe an obligatory bio.

Then you need some links to show off your interests. One of mine is running a bunch of internet mailing lists. Most of them are motorcycle-oriented, like NYC Motorcyclists, a pseudo-club I started in 1993 to coordinate pizza runs. Since I'm also a former professional bass player, I wound up inheriting The Bottom Line.

Most personal pages have lots of photos of your significant other, your kids, your shiny new Harley. But I'm unmarried without kids and since I'm usually the guy holding the camera, there aren't that many of me either, at least not in my possession. But here are some pics of my dogs. Of course, Jack and Auggie each have their own web sites. I might as well mention their dog run web site too so Googlebot will pick it up.

One of the most popular content areas here are the shots of my house renovation, which has consumed almost all of my free time since I moved here.

Being the long-winded guy that I am, I figured that I needed to set up a blog at some point to vent my meaningless wisdomisms. So I've also been playing around with open source content management systems (CMS). If you have some time, visit @BrooklynRowHouse.com while you're here.

Finally, a home page needs some links to the author's favorite web sites. While I spend a lot of time on the web, I don't have many favorite URLs. Okay, here's a bone: one site I frequent is Forgotten New York -- a great find for NYC insomniacs. But don't worry. If you dive into some of the above HREFs you'll get bored enough, soon enough.

Edited 2/05/07 by Steve Manes
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