About pokitty.com
The domain was registered on a whim in September 2004 and remained styleless and guileless for several months. The site mainly serves to host Ree's writing efforts, roleplay profiles, and web tricks of the moment (one of the latest being the dynamic blog on the front page).
Its current design (as of August 2006) uses images from CastleTrash.com (now defunct) and stylesheets by Ree, the site owner.
About pokitty.com
"Pokitty" means many things. It's repetitive poking (poke poke pokitty). It's a feline lacking proper funding (po' kitty). And now it's a domain name.
... Look, I had never had a domain name before, and I needed one to make the most of my web hosting account. I picked one off the cuff, bought it, and lived with it ever since.
About Ree
I'm Ree. I live in South Dakota, USA. I am old enough to legally do most everything that is ever legal, and young enough not to worry about aging (much). I happen to be female, pasty-white, and fairly tall (5'10" / 1.8m). Most of the time, I'm pretty happy with that.
I tend to fill my free time with geekery. I flit through several online communities and roleplays. I'm also an avid reader, possessing several bookshelves as well as a pile of books higher than my head. The latter I've dubbed "Mt. Readme" and hope to pare down... eventually.
Ree and the internet
Like many Internet folk, I'm good with HTML and CSS. Unlike most of them, I have a distaste for JavaScript and an abiding interest in web accessibility and usability. I'm much better at coding than making accessible, but at least I'm learning. I am emphatically not a web professional and I'm sure that it shows.
I don't have a portfolio online. At the moment, the best examples of my web dev skills are my personal domain (YOU ARE HERE), my abandoned Xanga, and my Tabulas theme, which a GPL'd WordPress theme that I ported to the Tabulas templating system. Please note that the Xanga is from the pre-Xanga Themes days, so I had to code around a lot of bunk to get anything remotely decent.
Ree and roleplay
I am primarily an online freeform play-by-post roleplayer, with a hefty side of tabletop gamer.
I got started roleplaying in 1999 on the now-defunct SciFiSites, later TheSciFiVine. The site was rather rotten but the atmosphere was friendly and nurturing. Since that site closed, its members had a diaspora throughout various corners of the internet. I occasionally check a few such corners, but my heart belongs to Profusion, the diasporic roleplay/writing group comprised of the people and characters I knew the best. I also toy with bringing back my own closed roleplay board, MoonBurnt, though problems periodically crop up to keep me away from it.
I don't play MMORPGs. Those cost money. I'd rather buy books or webspace. I do indulge in some Legend of the Green Dragon in fits and bursts, and I obsess over the status of my Tiny Adventures hero.
On the tabletop front, I mostly play Star Wars and MURPG these days. I'm game for most any system -- with the marked exception of a rather unbalanced homebrew DBZ ruleset that once keelhauled me but good. I think I have scars from that one.
Ree and literature
I read most everything I get my hands on. This sometimes includes backs of cereal boxes, political propaganda (which I then research and evaluate for myself), EULAs, and — once — the lines of my palm. I can kill an entire weekend on Project Gutenberg or Escape Pod.
I occasionally write myself: usually flash poetry, but there are a few more considered pieces.
About the meaning of life
The answer to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything is obviously 42. Beyond that, I know as much as the next guy. Best of luck finding out!