Sometime before 1996, I wrote what would now be called a Star Trek blog. My idea was to play off popular ideas of science, and examine the deeper issues behind them (more on that and nods to the literature on the intro page). One of the first entries was an exploration of theoretical biology definitions of life.

At that time, not everyone had heard of the World Wide Web, and fewer had visited it. I was the webmaster of a rock music charity site, Rock and Wrap It Up! Since I maintained it, each page was linked to quantumnow.com. The fact that this charity had a website was itself newsworthy. Various rock bands were introduced to the WWW after signing up with RWU, and then visiting the charity site.

John Popper of Blues Traveler was, around that time, interviewed in Entertainment Weekly magazine. Again, just saying that you visited a website was newsworthy. John described some of the sites he visited, starting with RWU with which Blues Traveler had signed, and said of the web: "there are even definitions of life there!"

I don't know if this is the site to which John was referring. With or without his imprimatur, here is my life blog, basically a summary of the so-called naive view put forth by Erwin Schroedinger before he demolished his straw man to make a deeper point.

"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it..."