This is version who-knows-what of mongoosedog.net; powered by Pixelpost and using the template provided by Joe Roback (The World in 35mm). The photographer, Anthony Nuval, is an electrical engineer by education, software programmer/engineer/magnetic resonance physics guy by trade, photographer in his spare time, and evidently a masochist (what with aspirations of going to med school dontchaknow).
Begun early in 2002 as a weblog entitled "Hiding Among the Masses," mongoosedog.net was a carryover from my personal home page at ee.cooper.edu. It had the entirety of my digital photo album, which by this time is rather unwieldy and rather impossible for me to keep organized. The domain name comes from a cartoon, "Invader Zim." I could explain it, but I leave it as an exercise to the reader to Google it.
Sometime around 2003, I redesigned the weblog. I kept the original photo album design with the intent that I would eventually get around to giving it a makeover.
In September 2004, I decided to drastically reduce my online presence. I was using my weblog primarily to keep in touch with my friends who are now scattered across the four reaches of the globe, but I updated it about once a week at best and I figured I kept in touch with my closer friends through other means, anyway. My site was going in a different direction that I wanted it to--and I wanted it to be a place where I could exhibit my photography.
I then brought it back, primarily as a photo album and a portfolio of images, sometime around 2005 (I think). That was version 3. The site layout was still self-designed and coded; by this time in my life, I was losing interest in keeping up with the latest web technologies and so could not make it as snazzy as other sites (keep in mind that by this time Web 2.0 had not reached buzzword status). Add to that the fact that I didn't have a good workflow for uploading new photos, and you have yet another website that was rarely updated.
2007 saw the transfer to Dreamhost and the installation of WordPress. With that, I figured I'd try keeping a blog again. At this point, I realized that I just didn't care to write about most of the things going on in my life since it was all rather mundane. Surprise--the blog was updated once in a blue moon. I had no interest in keeping my photo album here since most of it was on flickr.com, anyway.
Now, it's 2009. Once again finding myself with some free time, I figured, why not start up a photoblog? Since I don't have the time to write--and I bet no one ever read what I wrote anyway--might as well do something to motivate me to keep shooting. I've since fallen out of love with the idea of keeping all my photos on flickr--what will I do when flickr goes away or I decide to stop forking over the cash to maintain my account? Although I love it and will still continue to use it, I will once again try to use my terribly-neglected domain for actual useful things.
I will do my best to keep this updated. At least, until I realize that no one is looking at my photos, either.