After finding this site in a search for Pinzgauer information, someone asked:
“Is the purpose of this site to allow fred to engage in unilateral diatribes about n'importe quoi?”
Yes.
“Who is the audience”
Friends of mine, and anyone who happens to find it.
“and why are the posts of others ignored?”
Because there's something wrong with the code, again. I wrote the code for this site myself, and I recently modified something that's supposed to filter malicious data entries so hackers can't crash my database. I saw your initial comment; it got mailed to me; but I didn't see it on the site, so obviously there's something wrong. This site is also a place for me to test web programming. I'll try to get it working again soon, but it isn't that high a priority to me. I tend to suspect it has something to do with use of the apostrophe, but I'm not sure.
I do reserve the right to delete comments I don't like, and to block IP addresses if necessary. As well as the right to serve refuse to anyone.
“That hardly seems like something worth posting on a public Internet…???”
And that should matter…why? I also post most of the pictures I take, mostly so friends can look at them. It's my server, my bandwidth. It's not my fault that Google (or whoever) found it for you. Maybe the Pinz pictures were useful to you, maybe not.
Thing is, the Internet is a virtually unlimited resource, that's essentially free. What's “worth” posting? There's plenty of porn, so at least there's that. I've found reasonably good information about buying a car, lately. Plenty of entertaining stories. Some news. And there's lots and lots of worthless junk like my site. It doesn't have to be worthwhile. It doesn't have to have a purpose. It's a place for me to test php, and to scrawl whatever I want in a tiny little corner of the massive bathroom wall we call the internet (or occasionally “The Internets”).
I have a group of friends who put on an internet radio show. Pretty much full time, 24/7 I believe, tho sometimes it's just automated random play. They play whatever the hell they want, or talk about whatever the hell they want. Is it a waste of bandwidth? Sure. So what?
Personally, I'm a lot more perturbed by spam, popups, viruses, and other unwanted nasties on the web, to worry and/or complain about the volume of useless material here.
In any case, thanks for visiting!
Update:
Fixed. And I re-added your comments, tied them to this thread, and added paragraph dividers, something my program doesn't seem to do properly yet. At some point I should probably fix dates, as well. (shrug)