Welcome to Catch The Comet

Welcome to my new blog which I have somewhat irrevently called... "Catch The Comet'.

Some of you might remember the group of hapless web designers known as Heaven's Gate that offed themselves to board Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997. They are no longer working on the World Wide Web. Instead they have apparently moved up to the Universe Wide Web that Al Gore has yet to introduce us to here on planet Earth.

Anyway, this will be a blog that will cover a broad range of topics concerning web design. I hope to keep you engaged, informed, sometimes infuriated, and as much as I can, educated. Hopefully we can "Catch The Comet" in the sense that we shoot for the stars (in a design sense) and make it.

No one is really sure if the Heaven's Gate group actually had boarding passes. So we don't really know if they made it onto the comet or not. But they sure made a name for us web designers for a few days there. Such a nutty job isn't it?

As a little side bar here, I need to tell you about my wonderful mom. The day that the Heaven's Gate guys departed it was all over the news. I had been working in the web design field for a few years after leaving the newspaper business as a graphics editor. My mom, who is a very funny and sometimes kooky woman, saw the news and was very excited to call me. I remember the conversation...

Mom: Oh, Paul, have you heard the latest news?
Paul: No, what happened?
Mom: Well it is terrible. And I hope you don't get upset. But I just heard that a group of web designers called Heaven's Gate killed themselves! Did you KNOW any of those people?!
Paul: Um... wow... well, no mom. I didn't know any of those people. They were web designers huh?
Mom: Yes. I figured you would probably know them.
Paul: Mom, there are web designers all over the world. Thousands, maybe millions of them worldwide. That would be like asking Dad if he knew that salesman in China that jumped off that builidng. Just because he is a salesman too. Ya know?
Mom: Well, I just thought you might.
Paul: Nope... sorry Mom.
Mom: Hmmmm, oh well.

Enough said for now.