Seattle Area Traffic
Traffic map from the Washington State Department of Transportation.
Welcome to Kolvir
Personal website of Don Glover
What is Kolvir?
In Roger Zelazny's The Chronicles of Amber series of novels, Kolvir is the mountain upon which the city of Amber sits. The site of the primordial pattern, it is a solid foundation upon which order was drawn from a chaotic universe.
When I first joined the interwebs in the late 80's, I used Amber as my domain and registered in the domain registry at the time. I was connected to world via email though a UUCP feed hosted first by polari and then connected.com.
About the time connected died it's horrible little death ISPs providing email were becoming cheap and somewhat ubiquitous. I decided to my email connectivity through a more reliable service. About that same time, the government decided to force some structure on the domain system. Existing domains were grandfathered in, but but only if you did the paperwork. I didn't, so I lost Amber.com.
In the late 90's I decided to host my own web site. Amber.com was long gone, but Kolvir was available, so I snapped it up. I got service that included a static IP and set up a server. Over time it went through a few hardware iterations, but it finally became apparent that, for stability reasons, I needed to move to a hosting service. At first I was with Network Solutions, but found it too expensive and limited. After many years I finally got off my ass and moved it to 1and1.com where it sits today.
