Latest additions Check out my eBay auctions — beer memorabilia and other cool stuff! NOW READING "People of the Noatak," by Claire Fejes "Against An Infinite Horizon," by Ronald Rolheiser "Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight," by Pat Shipman "Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life," by Wynton Marsalis JUST FINISHED "Eat What You Want and Die Like a Man: The World's Unhealthiest Cookbook," by Steve Graham "Icon of Evil," by David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann "Bliss to You: Trixie's Guide to a Happy Life," by Trixie Koontz as told to Dean Koontz "The Grift," by Debra Ginsberg AUTHOR PROFILES Best-selling author lets dog live on through books, from September 14, 2008 HOT ON THE WEB September 12, 2008 – Google goes browser August 8, 2008 – OpenOffice and HTML NORTH COUNTY TIMES OPINION COLUMN An appearance of petulance, from Oct. 5, 2008 NEW MUSIC ARTICLES Collins still in love with great songs, from September 11, 2008 Lady Dottie finds new career fronting soul-rock band, from September 11, 2008 Aussie transplant follows music dreams to San Diego, from September 11, 2008 LATEST CD REVIEWS Nudge it Up a Notch — Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere Cowley Road EP — Gayle Skidmore Self Centered — Kenny Eng 20 Explosive Hits — The Shambles Mirror — Calico Horse Pollution for the Fountain of Youth — Firethorn Break Up the Concrete — The Pretenders GNV FLA — Less Than Jake Live — Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands From the Reach — Sonny Landreth NEW TO THE ARCHIVE Elbo Club — Saba

Welcome to my home on the Web. My other pages/sites are all accessible from the menu to the left. Weekly updates are in the box on the right, with an RSS feed at the top.

If you are here for the first time or by accident, the name's above. I'm a writer — about music, computers and culture, mostly, with a little bad poetry and the occasional fiction thrown in. This site began life in 1997 as a souped-up version of my bookmarks file so I could access my bookmarks from anywhere – and also learn a little HTML; it has since grown to include a growing archive of my reviews and columns.

Most recently (February 2008), I've added a photo slideshow of Barb and my wedding – slideshows of our family vacation to Montana to follow shortly.

I'm on MySpace now — myspace.com/trageser.

I'm particularly pleased with Turbula.net, an online arts and culture magazine. I've been lucky to get some very gifted writers to contribute — Turbula has something to appeal to nearly everyone, and I encourage you to give it a read.

I also have pages dedicated to the left-wing anti-abortion crowd (well, perhaps "crowd" isn't quite the right word, but there are more than you'd think from the mainstream media, the Christian Right or the establishment Left), science and San Diego, as well as fun, off-the-wall stuff. (Speaking of off-the-wall, click here for ultimate vanity of personal photographs.)

I have shut down the Trageser World Headquarters page on Geocities — my dad's Trageser Origins & Ancestry page is far more complete than anything I've contemplated. From the old and now dead Geocities page, I did move the Misspelled Trageser List page over here, and the Tribute to Brother Joe Trageser to my dad's site.

For the past eight years, I've been writing a beginner's column about finding your way around the online world — first in ComputorEdge magazine where I wrote the Online San Diego column, then for two years for SignOn San Diego, where I wrote the Lost In Cyberspace column, and now back in ComputorEdge with the renamed Hot on the Web.

This is not a blog; I'm far too lazy to update this thing that often. If you're looking for blogs, try Diana Higgins' site. She's a friend from college and one of the smartest people you'll ever meet. Another college friend, Ken Layne, sometimes has a blog at his site where he rails against, well, everything, really. Sometimes he takes the blog down and promotes his band. He may do something new. Who knows? And another intriguing blog can be found at Tall, Dark & Mysterious.

Questions, suggestions or complaints — e-mail me.

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