Welcome the personal website of David Diepenbrock. One might wonder, in this day and age (with facebook, myspace, twitter, blogger, livejournal, and the like) why bother with maintaining your own website? Two reasons: First, I get a bit uneasy about all of the information so quickly shared with those websites and how much they know about us. I put some stuff here on this website that I want the world to see, but I don't want to give rights to some other company to use in any way they please. Second, it's a bit of a hobby. I enjoy putting together websites and experimenting with web technologies. That's how the journal came about: my buddy and I wanted to build our own. We suffered through configuring tomcat and apache to play nicely together on the debian server, and applied some of that computer science stuff with a mysql database backend and using jsp's and servlets for the web interaction. Since those days, it's been refactored into php - much easier to maintain and I found that most web hosting companies don't support jsps/servlets.