A colophon is a page in a book that gives publication information about the book. Typically, it includes production information on the typefaces used, the paper, perhaps what programs or equipment were used in producing the book, and the general style of the book.

Most books do not have colophons any longer, and I guess the reasons are mostly due to chronological and fiscal economy. Nonetheless, I think colophons are super interesting, and mourn not only the fading of the colophon, but also the circumstances that made the colophon important (i.e. the craft that printers and binders took in producing a book).

The title logos on the the main site and on desiderata use the Lucida Grand font.

The rest of the text is all done with style sheets, and I've specified the font faces in the following order: Lucida Grand, Lucida Sans, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif. What you see in your browser depends on whether you have these fonts installed on your system.

I use PHP for most of the site, mostly just to make it easier to change the look and feel. For quick and dirty web sites like this, PHP is much easier than using Java, my preferred web programming language, and Perl is right out.

Desiderata uses Serendipity, with PostgreSQL at the backend. I've customized the stylesheet and templates to match the main site design.

The photo gallery is powered by Scry, with some similar tweaks to the templates.

These pages are served by the Apache HTTP server running on Macintosh OS X 10.4, attached to a residential DSL line through BritSys.

I wrote the code using TextPad, GNU Emacs, Apple's Xcode, and NetBeans, which sums up my evolving IDE tastes. I use Subversion to manage the project.

The graphics were made using the Gimp.