Next time you go into your local supermarket take a look around at where goods are actually placed in reference to everything else. The random and totally nonsensical design to some of the big chain food stores never ceases to amaze. Having worked part-time, in the now defunct Grand Union, as a high-school student years back gave me a good deal of insight into the random layout and seemingly ad hoc nature of these stores. Store execs must actually sit down during planning and ask themselves, "How can we make our new branch even more confusing than the last?"

We all have at some point been looking for an item like ketchup, pasta, cookies, etc, and needed to ask a store clerk where to find it. The problem is, unless they've worked there way longer than is healthy, most aren't very sure either. Outside of the easy ones like produce and meat, your average 17 year old kid is going to have no freaking clue where to find what you're looking for, simply because he's just as confused as you. Most of the responses I gave people sounded something like this: "I'm sorry, I'm not exactly sure where the pinto beans are, but I'm pretty sure they're between isle 3 and 10."

So, I finally decided to get off of my ass and turn this website into something useful (at least for me anyways). Since it's inception date on 6/9/04, digitalruin.net has been a place of random and mostly useless front pages, like the one you see on the right. This particular front page was a shining example of the best of the worst that the Internet has to offer; it literally meant nothing to anyone, incorporated only people I know, and uses a well beaten down Internet cliche. In fact, this image was so unimportant that I couldn't even find a copy of it on the server and had to pull it from an Internet caching site. Other great front pages included an early attempt at a blog written completely by hand in VIM, utilizing absolutely none of the easy publishing tools the Internet has to offer (I apparently liked making things more difficult).

Now with the booming age of Internet bloggers and self-proclaimed authorities on just about every subject, it only seemed right to join the ranks as another annoying and ranting idiot! ...If only to save the sanity of my co-workers (yes, you Eric) from hearing me bitch about current events, this complete face lift seemed like a great idea and a bit of fun. Why not actually put my skills (ha!) to work and add to the steaming pile of Internet trash. \m/ (><) \m/

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