Remembering Michael Taun Blair

June 26th, 1953 - November 9th, 2011

A tribute to my late father, Michael "Mike" Blair. He catalyzed my interest in technology, programming, and games. I miss him dearly.

Video Tribute

A video I made for my father's funeral which includes a montage of family photographs set to some of his favorite songs by Jimmy Buffet.

A Dreamer's World

A Dreamer's World is an archive of my father's personal homepage circa late 1990s.

His site was originally hosted on Tripod and, as of this writing, is still accessible at the following URL: https://members.tripod.com/~Raging_Tiger/

Since Tripod could go offline at any time, I wanted to make sure his homepage remained online. In addition, Tripod has embedded more and more ads over the years, ruining the experience.

My Changes

I've attempted to make as few changes as possible in order to preserve his original HTML coding, table-based layout and all.

Redundant images and other assets have been pruned. Tripod's obtrusive ads and tracking JavaScript have been removed, of course.

Unsurprisingly, the web has moved forward in the last twenty years and so I've made minor styling and layout changes in order to keep his site rendering as I believe he would have intended.

External Links

Many of the external pages, webrings, counters, etc are no longer functioning. I've decided to leave these URLs intact for now.

At some point in the future, I would like to replace these broken links with the Internet Archive versions of these sites (if they exist).