wednesday, 14 february 2001 | 8:42 am est

happy valentine’s day, i suppose.

i realized on the train this morning that caoine turns two years old tomorrow. it was two years ago now that i first registered a geocities account and started trying to teach myself html. the first incarnation of the site - back when it was still called [and yes, it makes me cringe too] “the odditorium” - was pretty godawful. its sole purpose was to act as a sort of glorified profile [some things never change] and to keep me from having to email some pictures of me that brian had taken with his digital camera. brian’s dead now. he died at a punk show shortly after he started his freshman year in college. he was eighteen. i miss him.

the site’s moved around a lot in the past two years. as i mentioned, it started on geocities. some time after that, i moved it to internettrash. shortly after i moved to new york and started getting to know people here, cliff offered to host me and i moved again, to nycgoth.com. a few months later, the site made its last actual move to date, when spencer hosted me on thorns.org. i have my own domain now, but caoine.org is still actually stored on spencer’s server, as are most of my other sites. i doubt i’ll be moving any of them any time soon.

i sort of wish i still had one of my first designs, just as a sort of historical curiosity. they were all terrible, of course, but it would be interesting to see the evolution.

anyway. have a good wednesday.