This website started out as a personal archive, but after five years of steady work I hope it now stands revealed as something more useful. A click on any of the square buttons grouped around my mug-shot at upper left should soon reveal that I have a bigger aim in mind than mere self-perpetuation. In times gone by, when a ruling megalomaniac got the urge to immortalise himself by building a personal mausoleum on the grand scale, there were obvious drawbacks. A pyramid, for example, took up a lot of lateral space and carved a large triangular piece out of the skyline, thereby ensuring that it would defeat the proprietor’s initial purpose. It might as well have carried a large neon sign saying “Treasure Buried Here”. This multi-media website gets bigger by the month but it takes up no room whatsoever. It all unfolds from a single dot in cyberspace, and positively invites tomb-robbers to visit its every chamber, the idea being not to guard the treasure but to give it away for free. Once you get inside, you will find that the inmates include a lot of other people besides myself, and most of them are very much alive. They, too, have brought their treasure with them. Then you will notice that the pyramid is made of glass, like the one at the Louvre. And then you will notice, by the stars streaming past outside, that the whole thing is flying. Where to, I still have no idea, but anyone in the world is welcome to climb in and take a look around. Feel free to wander, perhaps starting with NEW, which gives a quick guide to the latest postings month by month, and thus a history of how the site grows.

—London, September 2008