Some believe a website should open straight to its logical menu of options. Perhaps - but I think personal sites are a bit different, and people that visit them expect to see something different, something personal, and not just a menu of options.
These are the entry pages (splash pages) that I have written and used. They're nothing more than an expression of what I was feeling at some moment, typically using a simple hack, sometimes left up for many, many months at a time.
These are all alternative entrances to the site, and thus all* take you back to the same place. The pages have been slightly updated - html validated, tags lowercased - but should look the same as they did originally.