Why a Web Site

My own earliest days of using computers was in a room housing a floor-mounted IBM machine and computer card-punching station. We punched cards for each data set input; the calculating program was contained within a thick deck of cards to which the data cards were added. My son knows nothing of that. I know nothing of building web sites, but he does. I just write this weekly column, on a modern laptop computer. So that is why we have children. We have diversity in our family. And one day my son said, “Let’s put The Magic Library Card! articles into a web site.” And so we have, but clearly I could not have done so without him. The site is up now in beta form and can be accessed at magiclibrarycard.com. It contains, selectively, articles from this column since its inception on August …