About Thornton2.com

Thornton 2 Productions is a sole proprietorship venture by Don Thornton II. Thornton 2 produces original intellectual property for use in print, art, media, branding, and the Web.

T2 specializes in the authoring of computer software and standards; the authoring of traditional, computerized, and hybrid art and animation; and Internet-based content consulting services. Thornton 2 believes that advanced technology is wasted unless successfully and reliably applied to genuine consumer needs, including the need to be affordable and useful to the average worker.

Don Thornton 2 served for over eight years in the United States Navy and earned an honorable discharge. Today he lives in Magdalena, New Mexico. He is attending New Mexico Tech, working toward a degree in computer science, and holding down a day job at SDC Internet, where he works as a computer and network support technician.

He updates and maintains the thornton2.com domain as a spare-time project. No statements or opinions expressed anywhere within the thornton2.com domain are to be construed as being representative of the U.S. Navy, or of any other organization, government, company, or individual.

Ariel Millennium Thornton is the Thornton 2 Productions spokesman and mascot. Ariel is a fictional character created by me, Don Thornton II; any articles or quotes on this domain attributed to her are in fact authored by me.

Ariel's name was chosen to represent three characteristics.

• Her first name is inspired by Ariel, the airy spirit of Prospero's Island, in "The Tempest", by Wm. Shakespeare. She is an airy sprite of cyberspace.
• Her middle name is from the timing of her creation, the turn of the millennium; and the most significant cultural change that went with it, the invention and popularity of the Internet and world wide network technologies.
• Her final name states her purpose: to be my avatar, an alter-ego type representative of me, on the Internet and in intellectual property.

I occasionally idle on IRC and Furcadia masquerading as ArielMT. The "MT" is necessary to avoid confusion with a certain mermaid, as well as an even more popular font. (Would you believe how many people mis-read the font name Arial as Ariel?) Although I have been accused of being a font (in the other sense) of often relevant information.

• Home
• News
• Products - Material and digital stuff for sale and for free.
  • Got Step? merchandise - Shirts, hats, mugs, and other things in the name of everyone's favorite alternative Windows shell.
  • LiteStep Themes - Freely downloadable themes for LiteStep .
  • T2P merchandise - Stuff branded with the site logo and mascot.
  • US Flag Screensaver - A simple yet sharp-looking patriotic screen saver.
  • USN Delivery - Anytime, Anywhere, 'Cuz We're Already There.
  • Your Suggestion merchandise - I welcome constructive criticism, but not ideas doomed to fail.
• Projects - The long-term projects that T2 is working on.
  • Walking on Windows with a LiteStep - LiteStep has no printed reference, beyond what anyone prints from scattered websites, so T2 is trying to fill that void with a book.
• Commentary, Rants, and Raves
  • My Web Journal - The blog of a somewhat productive Web junkie.
  • Why Santana Happened - Why are kids shooting up our schools? This used to never happen.
  • Football Fans and Rules - Is it just the Cleveland Browns' fans, or is it something else? Could it be that the officials undermined the spirit of the game?
  • Spam Spam Spam Spam Email Spam Spam and Spam - After cutting down my spam diet from nearly 1,000 a day in 1999 to less than ten a day in 2003, it doesn't take much for me to rant, but turning it into a howto makes it more useful, I hope.
• Links To and From Thornton2.com
• About (And Help with) the Site

You can reach Thornton 2 Productions by sending an email to Don Thornton II (infothornton2.com) . Due to the volume of email regularly received, please do not expect an immediate reply.