I’m Charlie Loyd, a programmer and graphic designer from the Pacific Northwest of the US – mainly Portland these days – and this is my extremely out-of-date site.

Mine: My photoblog, Draftastic, a collaborative editor I co-founded, Iff (a necessary and sufficient distraction), my journal, some photos, some photos just for your desktop background, a guide to irony, why Internet Explorer is bad, the toxins are leaving your body, the box with two outsides, using Unicode in (X)HTML, magnanimous advice for new coders, a source-viewer for this site, a guide to common homophones, an conversational introduction to typography, about rich fonts, words and phrases I suspect and avoid, & a sketch of a dory, plus (texts not mine): quotes so I don’t have to remember them, a speech never given & the Bill of Rights.

Meet: Aletheia, Amelia, Chris, David (my dad), Jim Wester, Jorma, Julie (my mom), Julieclipse, Paul, Ryland, Peter (my brother), Platypus, Robert, Wheel, et alia.

Read: The Arts and Letters Daily, the Astronomy Picture of the Day, the Beeb, Boing Boing, Cat and Girl, the Ceeb, craneporn, the Daily Dose of Imagery, Daring Fireball, The Economist, the Earth Science Picture of the Day, Google News, Grow-a-Brain, Kuro5hin, Metafilter, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Onion, Ozy and Millie, NOAA weather satellite feeds, Robot Wisdom, Slashdot, the tree octopus, & the United Nations.

Query: the ACME Mapper, Babel Fish Translation, Bartleby, the CSS 2.0 standard, dict.org, The Economist’s styleguide, Everything2, Indo-European roots, Liddell & Scott, the Unicode charts, the W3C validator, & the XHTML 1.1 standard.