About this Site
This is a personal website; sometimes a weblog, sometimes a journal. Chrisonomicon means "Book of the Names of Chris" and although influenced by the title of H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon ? and, arguably, Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon ? that's as far as the correlation goes. I wrote everything on this site, except where noted. This site is generated dynamically using a few PHP scripts I threw together, a MySQL database, a toaster oven, a ball-point pen, and a few pieces of chewing gum. For a cheap, reliable web host check out my hosting provider, LiquidWeb.
About the Author
My name is Chris; age twenty-four years; living in Colorado; born 8 December 1978, Hahn, Germany; gay; graduate student in Business Admin; graduated from the University of Colorado in 2001 with a B.S. in Computer Science; 6'3", 185 lbs., brown hair and eyes. If you want to know more, the journal entries are much more revealing than any stats sheet. I can also be emailed via this form, if you are so inclined. More pictures here.
About Journals
The lifetime diaries of the French writer H.F. Amiel, for example, trace a path from guilt and self-condemnation to a growing maturity and happiness. In his later years Amiel attested to the journal's cathartic and curative powers: "The chief utility of the journal intime is to restore the integrity of the mind and the equilibrium of the conscience, that is, inner health."?Tristine Rainer, The New Diary
I associate honesty with loss of love. The only people I had known who were honest, beligerent, assertive, undisguised had lost love. I was not going to risk that. There was the fear of the world. I had seen destructive relationships, destructive journalism, destructive critics, destructive wars. I felt the world to be a rather dangerous place. I did not feel ready to confront this. I needed a shelter for my work. The diary was a fine one. A shelter from misunderstanding, from satire, from attack, from judgement.?Anais Nin, Novel of the Future
About Weblogs
Weblogs, typically, are personal Web sites operated by individuals who compile chronological lists of links to stuff that interests them, interspersed with information, editorializing and personal asides. A good weblog is updated often, in a kind of real-time improvisation, with pointers to interesting events, pages, stories and happenings elsewhere on the Web. New stuff piles on top of the page; older stuff sinks to the bottom.Salon
Summaries of news predate the Internet, of course. But in the digital era, when virtually anyone with Net access can operate an electronic clipping service, the genre has spawned thousands of news hounds -- not to mention the news links on big portal sites like Yahoo and Excite. Yet, largely through grass-roots, word-of-mouse popularity, sites like Romenesko's are catching on with a discerning crowd -- including reporters and editors of many news organizations, who rely on the sites to help filter the welter of information on the Web.New York Times
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