It's quite likely that you've already figured out the navigation system for this Web site. After all, how would you have got here otherwise, right? In case you're still a bit dazed, there's a little persistent frame at the bottom of the browser window that has links to all the main areas of the site.

OK, so you've noticed that the Web site makes extensive and unrelenting use of framesets. No, there is no way to navigate the Web site without framesets. Some people think framesets are evil because it's hard to bookmark a page that you really like. Well, this may be one of the downsides of framesets but, quite frankly, I think that framesets offer more to a Web site than they take away. Navigation is smooth instead of "choppy". Much less of the constant going back to index pages and menus. The Tom Kidding Web site makes up for bookmarking dilemma in two ways. First, the navigation system is clear and it is quite easy to find your way back to a place you like. Secondly, there is a nifty "Bookmarks" section of the Site Info that offers you some ready-to-go bookmarks.

All of my work, including paintings, drawings, photomontages, Web graphics, poetry, prose, short stories, philosophical writings, music, song lyrics, JavaScript coding, HTML coding, etc. is copyright protected. For more info, read the full copyright statement.

I utterly loathe and detest spam on the Internet. Because of this, my Web site has a very stringent policy regarding the use of e-mail addresses. Stated simply, no e-mail addresses entered into any forms on any page of this Web site will be used to pernicious spam-proliferating ends. Under no circumstances will e-mail addresses be sold or exchanged to further the sick and heinous cause of those who would ruin the Internet by sucking like parasitic leeches upon the precious bandwidth that we all share!!!!! Phew! OK, I'm alright now..... Promise.

If you've spent any time browsing the poetry, artworks, stories, or other of my works at this site, you will have noticed what may seem like a rather funky date format used along with these works. This is actually a highly respected international date and time format referred to as ISO8601. The format for date, under this standard, is YYYY-MM-DD. The first four digits are for the year, and actually cater for the notion that the human race may survive into the next millenium - what a concept!

There is also a great deal of logic to the order year, month, day. Documents that have dates in their names using their format, or the date fields of a database using this format are easily sorted chronologically using a simple alphanumeric sort. It is also easier for the human eye to scan across many dates in this format and filter out the oldest or most recent dates in a list. It's a very common categorisation approach to describe something in terms of its broadest properties and then proceed to describe the more granular properties. So, the order of year, month, day in the ISO8601 standard makes a whole lot of sense, unlike the somewhat screwed up American MM-DD-YY way of dating things. The older European format DD-MM-YY at least had things lined up in order, albeit the wrong way around to be of any value.