David Albeck's Home Page

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I started this website back in the early 2000s as a way to teach myself HTML and related technologies like CGI. I started out writing the whole thing by hand, then added some Perl scripts, some simple templates, and so on.

By the mid-2010s it was growing increasingly obsolete, and I didn't have time to fix it. I needed something easier to update for my travel blog, for which I decided to use WordPress. But I didn't love Wordpress either. Nowadays I put my photos on Smugmug, but the photos here are already uploaded and well-indexed, so this site lives on in zombie mode.

Below is a little time capsule: this is what my home page looked like circa 2014.

• I keep My Photo Album online. Mostly hiking trips and other travel.


• I go hiking often enough that I've started accumulating Hiking-related Info.


• I do a little writing once in a long while. Stuff I think is worth sharing is on my writings page.


• I like language games.
  Verlan (link goes to page written mostly in French)
  Verlan (this page is in English)
  E-Prime


• Learn more about other people and places named Albeck.


• Come back every few weeks, I intend to post a bunch of different stuff.

Archived Pages

• Mount Greylock, June 2000
• Mount Washington, July 2000

External Archives containing my Work

• One of my photos was picked up by Climbing magazine, for an article about slab climbing in the summer 2012 issue (scroll down to the Quincy Quarries section). In the printed magazine it's a third-of-a-page photo.


• A couple of my photos are hanging inside the Harris Center (or were in 2012)


• One of my photos was used as Photo of the Week in NHPR's "Something Wild" photo blog (March 21, 2008).


• Another was used by Northern Woodlands magazine in winter 2007 (print edition only).


• Lots of my photos, and descriptions of my hiking and climbing trips, are online at Summitpost.


• I'll often post photos I'm particularly fond of to my Flickr stream even before posting them here on my own website.

Places Where my Photos have been Exhibited (for a limited time)

• L'Aroma Cafe, Bakery, & Gallery


• Great Falls Discovery Center


• Best Sellers Cafe

Permanent Ephemera

• My infamous Python "bug" report is no longer the #1 Google hit for my name, in fact it seems to have disappeared entirely from Google's index. But the Web does not forget: the page linked to above contains the entire embarrassing episode.


• For a while, Google itself (well, Deja.com originally) preserved my one semi-legitimate claim to bug-reporting fame, a Perl bug discovered by a coworker of mine. I was teaching a lesson on the behavior of truth values in Perl, and he contradicted me. I was right according to the language specification, and he was right according to the program he'd just written. (The bug had already been fixed in a more recent release.)

Friends & Cronies