Wheel Reinvention Project Abandoned

That's right. The oft-neglected, painfully minimalist, and oddly spamophilic jeffevans.us will no longer see any new content. Given that Google is gradually commandeering the e-mail, medical archival, and interplanetary planning domains, it seems only natural they should absorb my smatterings somewhere along the way. Plus at some point I forgot how to write php, or at least read the festering pile of pre-CS-125 spaghetti code that comprises my source.

Yes, I know the timing is highly suspect but no, this is not a joke. This, however, is... I hope.

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