Rik Osborne

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Hi, I'm Rik Osborne. I'm an amateur musician, amateur Web designer, and wannabee novelist from Wenatchee, Washington, USA. I've lived in Wenatchee since 1983, but I was born in Yuma, Arizona, and raised in Vancouver, Washington. I was dragged to Wenatchee against my will after my dad was promoted and transferred here during the summer before my Senior year in high school.

I like to play at Improbable Island and Dragon Machine.

I Read a Lot

It's true. When I'm not surfing the Web, posting to forums, designing Web pages, playing my bass, bicycling, or slaving away at work, I read books. At the moment I'm reading Dragonlance: The Minotaur Wars, Book 1: Tides of Blood by Richard A. Knaak.

If you'd like to see what else I've read lately, visit my Reading page!

Mister-Rik.com version 11.0

Unlike version 10.0 of this site, this design is all my own work. It looks simple, but it wasn't. The idea was to simulate old-style frames using CSS, with the navigation links on the left remaining in place while the rest of the page scrolls freely. It was more work than I expected, but I finally got the desired results.

Special thanks to arwen54 over at Open Web Design for helping me get the CSS positioning to work properly in Internet Explorer. Why oh why can't Microsoft follow standards? (I actually created this layout a couple years ago, and it worked in IE 5.2 for the Mac, as well as whatever version of IE was in use under Windows XP. I can't vouch for whatever version of IE is used by Vista. Sorry.)

Some Buttons & Links

This website features a Blank Page according to the recommendations of the TPILB-Project.

Last Update

This page last updated September 30, 2008 ::

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