Here are some random other things in My World. One thing is “display.” I don't exactly collect things, but I'm very interested in the small groups of objects that I own being displayed somehow. Aesthetics! It's one of the Five Vowels of Happiness!!       [NEW: Click the pix for closer views.]

This is a group of small ethnic items - things from South and Central America, Africa and Asia.

Having nothing whatsoever to do with a macabre sensibility, this is a bunch of little Day of the Dead figurines from Mexico.

Just to put everyone more at ease, here are some charming tiny tea sets, and other pieces relating to Ideal Childhood.

I've had a good deal of fun teaching myself HTML and learning how to create web pages. I started with pages like this one, for the display of my fine self to a select group of friends. Lately, I've branched out to building other small sites in what I fondly think of as my “Web Hut.” On the left is a website that I've built and maintained for my friend, folk singer and historical musician, Jeff Warner. Looking for a guy to teach your fifth-grade class about 19th-century amusements and entertainments? Call him! www.jeffwarner.com

I kindly tell myself that I have a Sorting Disorder - though I believe that there's more order to it than disorder. I like to sort and count and order things. Not that I obsess about it, oh no, I'm not obsessive! I just like order, that's all. Here are a number of lists about any-old-thing.

10 Movies I Saw in 2005 Around the World in 80 Days Catch Me If You Can City of God Everything is Illuminated Finding Neverland Lagaan The Lion in Winter (2004) Matrix Reloaded Proof Wallace & Gromit and the Curse of the Were Rabbit (I saw 81 films this year.)

12 Songs I Sing Ae Fond Kiss (Sco) Bright Shining Morning (Eng) Cape Cod Girls (US) Charlie He’s My Darling (Sco) The Farmer’s Toast (Eng) Hard Times (US) The Lake of the Caogama (Can) Lowlands of Holland (Eng) Reynard the Fox (IR) Rose Connelly (US) Soul of Man (US) The Wind and the Rain (US) (I know around 130 songs.)

The Five Vowels of Happiness A totally brilliant pop-philosophy bit that I thought up all by myself. A = Aesthetics E = Ethics I = Independence O = Optimism U = Understanding and sometimes Y = Why? Question Authority! How can anyone live without Babz guide to life?! (Sadly, there are 20 Consonants of Despair. Sometimes 21.)

It's FUN to mess about with Photoshop. Not that I'm good at it. I don't even really know how to use it properly. But it's still fun to mess about! Here are some e-cards I made using Photoshop.

Page created 4 Mar 2006; minor updates since then