I’m Charlie (‘Vruba’) Loyd and you aren’t, so I made this site. I’m a programmer and graphic designer from the Pacific Northwest of the US. Find further fun in Iff (where I keep things to bookmark them) and my blog (which is more personal than most of this).

For amusement and edification I’ve made:

• a script to teach people common homonyms
• why Internet Explorer is evil
• the box with two outsides
• a guide to irony
• using Unicode in (X)HTML
• magnanimous advice for new coders
• photographs (with a handy emotion reference)
• a source-viewer for this site
• words and phrases I suspect and avoid
• an conversational typography primer
• a sketch of a dory
• mmm, rich fonts
• some ideas about art
• 15,000+ words of odds and ends

I host, but did not write:

• the Bill of Rights
• a speech never given

I recommend you meet:

• Aletheia
• Amelia
• Chris
• David (my dad)
• Jim Wester
• Jorma
• Julie (my mom)
• Julieclipse
• Paul Mullin
• Ryland
• Peter (my brother)
• Platypus
• Robert McLachlan

I follow:

• The Arts and Letters Daily
• the Astronomy Picture of the Day
• the Beeb
• Boing Boing
• Cat and Girl
• the Ceeb
• CBC Radio 2 stream
• craneporn
• the Daily Dose of Imagery
• Daring Fireball
• The Economist
• the Earth Science Picture of the Day
• Geocaching
• Google News
• Kuro5hin
• Metafilter
• The New York Times
• The New Yorker
• The Onion
• the tree octopus
• Ozy and Millie
• satellite weather feeds
• Sinfest
• Slashdot
• the United Nations

I refer to: 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.

Eminent physicians have determined beyond doubt that this site does not cause lumbago, gout, or dropsy! Other sites cannot make this claim.