Steve Callihan's "Personal" Page
Hi! I've always thought of myself as a writer. Since I was 16 or 17, anyway. I got into this web publishing stuff a couple of years ago or so, published some magazine articles, mostly about the Web (hey, just about anything on the Web will sell!), then, lo and behold, got a book offer. The book, Create Your First Web Page in a Weekend, was released by Prima Publishing on November 25. Since then, I've authored three other books, Learn HTML In a Weekend, Create Your First Mac Web Page In a Weekend, and Create Web Animations with Microsoft Liquid Motion In a Weekend, all published by Prima Tech. I've also co-authored another book, Create FrontPage 2000 Pages In a Weekend. Create Your First Web Page In a Weekend is currently out in a 3rd Edition, while Learn HTML In a Weekend is out in a Revised Edition. So, I guess I really am a writer, although being a writer you can never really be sure you are really a writer. Writing is like playing blind man's bluff, actually. Something has to be published before you can even begin to see what you've done, and even then the writer is by far the worst judge of it. Still, it beats having to shave every morning.
Table of Contents
- Jump Station. Jump directly to any of my web pages.
- One Web Avenue. This is my new umbrella page.
- My Web Publishing Pages. Find a web host, check out resources and tools, or buy my book.
- Online Articles. Read some of my articles that are available on the Web.
- A Seattle Lexicon. Learn to talk like a native.
- Aphorisms. Attempts at the art of the irreducible.
- Poems. Occassionaly I have broken down and written a poem or two.
- Pieces. These are prose pieces of varying comportment.
- Favorites. Want to know all about me? Here I reveal all. Well, almost all.
Jump Station
Use the following pull-down box to jump to any of my web pages:
One Web Avenue
I've added an "umbrella page," One Web Avenue, that is now my front door to the rest of my web pages. It is now the default root page for my domain, http://www.callihan.com/. The URL for this page, on the other hand, has changed to http://www.callihan.com/home.htm. I will most likely rework this page considerably, in that it is no longer my "root" page. For now, however, realize that for many of the links from this page to other pages of mine, clicking a "Return to Home" link will most likely return you, not to here, but to One Web Avenue.
My Web Publishing Pages
These are my web publishing pages:
- My Web Publishing Books: Look here for descriptions of and links to my pages for all of my web publishing books.
- Web Hosts Need to find a web host for your pages? Look here for where to find free, inexpensive, and other web hosts.
- Web Links: This is my link-o-rama page to all manner of information and material on web publishing, HTML, and other related things.
- Web Tools: This is my link-o-rama page to programs and utilites for web publishers. Included are Win Tools and Mac Tools sections listing links to web publishing software tools for those two platforms.
Online Articles
I have three articles that I've had published available on the Web, two that were published in WordPerfect for DOS Magazine and one that was published in Internet World.
- Web Site on a Budget in the April 96 issue of Internet World.
- Web Publishing With WP DOS in the February 96 issue of WordPerfect for DOS Magazine. (After WordPerfect was sold to Corel, none of the archived WP Magazine articles were transferred to the new server, so this article is no longer available online.)
- Name That File! in the June 95 issue of WordPerfect for DOS Magazine. (Note: Ditto above.)
A Seattle Lexicon
Being a born and bred Northwesterner, I thought I'd share with you a lexicon I've created of terms germaine to Seattle and environs:
Aphorisms
Here are some of my stabs at the lost art of the irreducible thought:
- Fragments: Thoughts of an Anti-Philosopher
Poems
Here are some of my poems. When I get the time, I'll be posting more of my poems here.
- Jewels of the Heart: A collection of love poems.
- Out: Something from the late 70s.
- Poems Against Poetry: A two-poem set, also from the late 70s.
- When I Grow Old: A poem I wrote when I was 19 years old.
Pieces
I'll be placing some of my "pieces" of creative writing here, as I get around to transcribing them.
- The Over-Inflated R. This goes back quite a ways, back to glory days up on Capitol Hill here in Seattle in the 1970's. The "friend" in this piece, by the way, is Jesse Bernstein.
- Return of the Blue Nudes. This is a previously unpublished review I wrote of Mike Bidlo's re-creation of Yves Klein's 1960 performance work, "Anthropometry of the Blue Period," that was performed at Seattle's Center of Contempory Art (COCA) in the fall of 1989.
Favorites
Hey, this is a personal page. Here's a partial list of some of my personal favorites:- Baseball teams: 1957 Milwaukee Braves, 1966 Baltimore Orioles
- Baseball player: Frank Robinson
- TV show (when I was a kid): The Cisco Kid
- TV show (when an adult): Dr. Who
- Cartoon character: Daffy Duck
- Writers: Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Knut Hamsun, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Elisabeth Bowen
- Writers (when I was 18): Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Herman Hesse
- Novel: The Brothers Karamazov
- Philosopher: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Film directors: Luis Bunuel, Akira Kurosawa
- Actor: Humphrey Bogart
- Actress: Jeanne Moreau
- Films: The Saragossa Manuscript, The Milky Way, Viridiana, Redbeard
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