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All Changes to this Site

This page lists all major changes to this site made since I started tracking them in May of 2002.

• 2002-05-12 - Added site customization and site changes pages.
• 2002-05-13 - Added a short tech note on hyperlink granularity.
• 2002-05-19 - Added discussion of hashes to Making Your Site Modifiable.
• 2002-05-23 - Added How Not to Make an Audio Book and a rant about copyright.
• 2002-05-25 - Deleted or changed (almost) all broken links. Thanks, linklint!
• 2002-06-06 - Added Menu Items are not Buttons to tech notes.
• 2002-06-07 - Added a question (since removed) to the F.A.Q.
• 2002-06-12 - Added the Flexifoil to the Kiting page.
• 2002-06-16 - Added the snowflake and some links to the Kiting page.
• 2002-06-18 - Added Patterns for Personal Web Sites, a total of 36 new pages. Whew!
• 2002-06-23 - Made Patterns for Personal Web Sites into a downloadable weblet.
• 2002-07-01 - Updated the Junkbuster block file. Added wikis to the Raves page.
• 2002-07-07 - Added the Evolution of an Antispam Strategy to tech notes.
• 2002-07-20 - The image dimensions droplet now works under Linux.
• 2002-08-02 - Added a HTML & CSS validation script to the Web site utilities.
• 2002-08-02 - Added the Carol Kovinick sightings page.
• 2002-08-12 - Added haiku to Cascading Style Sheets Considered Harmful? and Making Your Site Modifiable.
• 2002-08-17 - More on spam, and another way to avoid it.
• 2002-08-18 - Added a note to the 2002 notebook.
• 2002-08-23 - Added a F.A.Q. about puffer kite availability.
• 2002-10-22 - Added a tip for reading SF to the 2002 notebook.
• 2002-11-15 - Tightened the Contact Information page.
• 2002-11-20 - Added a self-portrait to the Gallery.
• 2002-11-22 - Added a short tech note: Another Web War.
• 2002-11-24 - Added hash cash to the Raves page.
• 2002-11-24 - Added three short tech notes.
• 2002-12-23 - Added a page showing one chart three ways.
• 2002-12-27 - Added an issue of From Oregon.
• 2003-01-01 - Wrapped icons with resizable text substitutes (using cascading style sheets). For example, became . This trick fails gracefully on browsers that don't render style sheets.
• 2003-01-04 - Rewrote the Monty Hall problem pages. Moved most of the content that used to be on the first page to the new Some Explanations page, and changed the first page to emphasize empiricism.
• 2003-01-06 - Started a new book list
• 2003-01-27 - Added text and background colors to the site-wide style sheet.
• 2003-01-27 - Rewrote the Cone Area page, and improved the illustrations.
• 2003-01-28 - Redid the Cone Area illustrations once again. Finally they're accurate.
• 2003-01-30 - Redid the Triplet Plotting illustrations.
• 2003-01-31 - Added the vector math section to the Triplet Plotting page.
• 2003-02-01 - Created this year's notebook.
• 2003-03-07 - Began spring cleaning this site by rewriting and significantly shortening the F.A.Q.
• 2003-03-07 - Reformatted some of the Beliefs and Hobbies pages.
• 2003-03-08 - Added a tech note on customization.
• 2003-03-10 - Added a question about icons on Internet Explorer to the F.A.Q. .
• 2003-03-12 - Added a note about language to the 2003 notebook.
• 2003-03-12 - Pared down the home page as part of an ongoing effort to bring the site more into conformance with minimal HTML.
• 2003-03-18 - Spring cleaning continues. Most pages have been restructured with <Hx> tags, and many classes have been sprinkled throughout the site.
• 2003-03-19 - Added Web Design Group rave.
• 2003-03-28 - Restored the Matthew's Advice on Coming Out rave.
• 2003-03-29 - Added a tip on creating transparent PNGs, guest starring Heyoka.
• 2003-03-29 - Added group photo to the CFF Internship story.
• 2003-03-31 - Added pageURL and colophon to this site's customizable classes.
• 2003-04-01 - Added a less precious bio page.
• 2003-04-03 - Added a question about icons to the F.A.Q.
• 2003-04-03 - Added a story: Upstate, Downstate.
• 2003-04-04 - Prettified some tables (example).
• 2003-04-06 - Added a note about free software to the notebook.
• 2003-04-09 - Added this year's URL breakage statistics to the List of Links.
• 2003-04-26 - Added a note about small Web sites to the 2003 notebook.
• 2003-05-06 - Peppered the site with a bunch of ABBR and ACRONYM tags.
• 2003-06-09 - Added a note about neighborhood design to the 2003 notebook.
• 2003-06-19 - Added a workaround for a Eudora 3.0 bug.
• 2003-06-27 - Added a note about a poorly written sentence to the 2003 notebook .
• 2003-06-28 - Added some Web site design aphorisms.
• 2003-06-28 - Updated the Web site indexing script. Its sort is now case-insensitive.
• 2003-07-08 - A major revision to the Patterns for Personal Web Sites.
• 2003-07-10 - Added GraphViz rave.
• 2003-07-22 - Added a site map and a site information index page.
• 2003-08-07 - Extracted the Monty Hall Java applet to its own page.
• 2003-08-08 - Improved site customization by adding per-section and per-page customization.
• 2003-08-09 - Added a note about free software and juggling.
• 2003-08-10 - Added and icons to the site map.
• 2003-08-12 - Added an author index of the yearly book review pages.
• 2003-08-20 - Added a tech note about naked links.
• 2003-08-22 - Added a story: University Cinemas.
• 2003-08-25 - Added a note about stereotypes.
• 2003-09-06 - Added a t-shirt design.
• 2003-09-12 - Added a question about plugins to the F.A.Q.
• 2003-09-12 - Added an explanation of why this site is plain to the F.A.Q.
• 2003-09-18 - Added an alternate style sheet to the customization page.
• 2003-09-21 - Changed site from HTML 4.01 Transitional to XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
• 2003-10-02 - Verified this site's XHTML. Passes linklint.
• 2003-10-07 - Added a story: Learning to Cook.
• 2003-10-14 - Added a chronological list of the site's pages.
• 2003-11-18 - Added a note about a personal idiom.
• 2003-12-02 - Added a 2002-2003 correspondence index.
• 2003-12-10 - Added another personal idiom to the notebook.
• 2003-12-21 - Added an issue of From Oregon.
• 2003-12-28 - Added a CSS challenge to the Tech Notes, along with a solution.
• 2004-01-12 - Started a new book list
• 2004-01-15 - Added a question about XML syntax to the tech Short Notes.
• 2004-01-15 - Extracted the latest CSS hack from tech Short Notes to its own page.
• 2004-01-24 - Added a CSS Rule of Thumb to the tech Short Notes.
• 2004-01-25 - Rewrote portions of the floated sidebar hack.
• 2004-01-26 - Added a variant of the floated sidebar hack: the margin note example.
• 2004-01-31 - Added a page of leocarpus fragilis photos.
• 2004-01-31 - Added a page of nidula niveotomentosa photos.
• 2004-02-04 - Added an update to the they're-now-known-as-CSS signatures page.
• 2004-02-16 - Started this year's notebook with an entry about linguistic nonsense.
• 2004-02-28 - Added a note about racism to the notebook.
• 2004-03-08 - Added a F.A.Q. about blogs.
• 2004-03-14 - Added a text size guideline to the tech Short Notes.
• 2004-03-20 - Added a notebook entry on anti-same-sex-marriage arguments.
• 2004-03-25 - Added a tech note on creating a backup strategy.
• 2004-04-21 - Added a notebook entry on a rare feeling.
• 2004-04-21 - Added a lightweight Perl CGI RSS aggregator.
• 2004-04-23 - Added an RSS lament to the tech Short Notes.
• 2004-05-05 - Added a postscript to the CD Rot page.
• 2004-05-09 - Added an exploration of geodesics on a cone.
• 2004-05-10 - Added DIY models to geodesics on a cone.
• 2004-05-13 - Added a few more illustrations to the geodesics on a cone page.
• 2004-05-13 - Added the Copyright as Government Service section to the copyright rant.
• 2004-05-16 - Added a rantlet about offsite links.
• 2004-06-30 - Added a discussion of the pole and barn paradox.
• 2004-07-02 - Extracted and expanded the pole and barn paradox's discussion of color to its own page. (Note: with this page, I began using PNGs regularly.)
• 2004-07-29 - Rewrote part of the Visualizing 4D page and improved some illustrations.
• 2004-07-30 - Put most of this site under a Creative Commons license.
• 2004-08-03 - Added an issue of From Oregon.
• 2004-08-05 - Added a neologism to the notebook.
• 2004-08-05 - Improved some illustrations on the geodesics on a cone page.
• 2004-08-05 - Reformatted most of the issues of From Oregon with proper HTML header elements.
• 2004-08-13 - Added two illustrations to the geodesics on a cone page.
• 2004-08-13 - Resolved a minor mystery about a knife.
• 2004-08-16 - Added a t-shirt.
• 2004-08-30 - Declared this site's emancipation from obsolete Web browsers (e.g, those which can't handle PNG alpha transparency, generated content, and MathML). I will provide backward compatibility if possible.
• 2004-08-30 - Added a section for mathematics, and moved some existing pages into it.
• 2004-08-30 - Added pages on the torus's curvature and geodesics. (Note: first use of MathML.)
• 2004-09-03 - Added a derivation of the torus's shape operator.
• 2004-09-05 - Created a new version of the cone surface area derivation page, and updated links to the obsolete old version.
• 2004-09-12 - Added the playlist of my ideal jukebox.
• 2004-09-18 - Added a hidden second story to A Story.
• 2004-10-04 - Added Irons' First Law of Examples to the notebook.
• 2004-10-12 - Added a bit of Web site hindsight to the tech Short Notes.
• 2004-10-15 - Added a recipe for high-calorie pudding to the Health section.
• 2004-10-30 - Added a question about handling data errors to the tech Short Notes.
• 2004-11-03 - Added a page on illustrating torus geodesics.
• 2004-12-12 - Tweaked the Illustrator artwork page's recycle symbol to smooth the arrows' creases.
• 2004-12-19 - Added new photos to the leocarpus fragilis page.
• 2005-01-03 - Started a new book list
• 2005-01-06 - Created an updated version of the knotwork tutorial for Illustrator CS
• 2005-01-09 - Added a new section to the story of Samuel R. Delany and me.
• 2005-01-12 - Added a favicon and a background to this site's pages.
• 2005-01-15 - Added advice for a good hair day to Good Advices.
• 2005-02-17 - Added a note about autodial on Windows 2000 to the tech Short Notes.
• 2005-03-15 - Added the autogenerated All Changes page.
• 2005-03-15 - Added three more good advices.
• 2005-03-20 - Added some strategy tips for Space Cadet Pinball.
• 2005-03-27 - Created this year's notebook, which begins with a tip for Christian kids.
• 2005-04-07 - Added a page of ticklers.
• 2005-04-21 - Added a note about actual and potential loss to the notebook.
• 2005-04-23 - Added two new kites to the Kiting page.
• 2005-04-24 - Added more words to the list of words banned from this site.
• 2005-05-07 - Added instructions for modifying Firefox's context menus to the Tech Notes.
• 2005-05-25 - Added another word to the list of words banned from this site.
• 2005-06-02 - Added a note about Windows 2000's Open File dialog to the tech Short Notes.
• 2005-06-04 - Created a new version of the triplet plotting page with properly formatted equations. Deprecated the old version.
• 2005-06-05 - Added a note about UI design to the tech Short Notes.
• 2005-06-07 - Added instructions for adding a new context menu item to the instructions for modifying Firefox's context menus.
• 2005-06-13 - Added instructions for customizing the game Black & White.
• 2005-06-21 - Added an RSS feed of recent site changes.
• 2005-07-08 - Banned two more words from this site.
• 2005-07-21 - Added a note on styling form elements to the tech Short Notes.
• 2005-07-25 - Added a rantlet about the acronym NSFW
• 2005-07-25 - Added a section about religion's role in the origin of my psychosexual makeup to the Leaving Christianity page.
• 2005-08-01 - Added a warning about the CGI RSS aggregator.
• 2005-08-01 - Banned another word.
• 2005-08-28 - Added a guideline for understanding appeals to authority to the notebook.
• 2005-09-01 - Added a note to the notebook about the paperless home.
• 2005-10-05 - Added the Gang of Seven interview.
• 2005-11-12 - Added a speculation about a missing gesture to the notebook.
• 2005-11-13 - Added a simple Halloween trick to the notebook.
• 2005-11-15 - Added parallel transport on the torus to the torus math section.
• 2005-11-22 - Added a Perl script to generate a POV-Ray torus patch mesh object to the Downloads section.
• 2005-12-28 - Added a year-end issue of From Oregon to the Writings section.
• 2006-01-01 - Started the annual book list.
• 2006-01-16 - Began the year's notebook with the recipe for hypertonic saline.
• 2006-01-17 - Added a Black & White 2 strategy guide to the General section.
• 2006-03-22 - Added a page of Black & White tips to the General section.
• 2006-03-29 - Added a page on centering stars to the Illustrator Tips section.
• 2006-03-30 - Added a page about bad plotting to the Reading section.
• 2006-03-31 - Added a page on Black & White’s Japanese totem puzzle.
• 2006-04-09 - Added a list of miracles available in the game Black & White’s story mode.
• 2006-04-09 - Added a page on Black & White’s tree puzzles.
• 2006-04-28 - Added a technical note about the failure of style sheets.
• 2006-05-01 - Added to the math section the expansion of a component of a Riemann tensor in terms of the metric tensor.
• 2006-07-27 - Added a technical note about CSS's conceptual impurity.
• 2006-09-27 - Added a page of lost things I'd like to find.
• 2006-10-02 - Added a page about building villas in the game Black & White 2 to the Game Tips section.
• 2006-10-22 - Revised the Black & White 2 strategy guide.
• 2006-10-30 - Added a rantlet about the word “clean-shaven”.
• 2006-12-16 - Added a note about fortune and luck to the Notebook.
• 2006-12-16 - Added this year’s bulletin.
• 2006-12-21 - Added a Battle of the Gods tips page to the Game Tips section.
• 2006-12-23 - Added a page on Battle of the Gods’ skeleton puzzle.
• 2007-02-08 - A short tech rant about the Apache Web server manual.
• 2007-02-08 - More in the notebook about how the world sees me.
• 2007-02-09 - A minor rant about iTunes and the iTunes Music Store.
• 2007-02-14 - Added criteria for book purges to the notebook.
• 2007-02-20 - Added a note on religion to the notebook.
• 2007-04-27 - Added a note about exercise to the notebook.
• 2007-07-07 - Fixed the diagrams and text of the pole and barn paradox page.
• 2007-08-09 - Added a tip for fixing nonprinting text to the tech Short Notes.
• 2007-09-05 - Added some proposed marriage laws to the notebook.
• 2007-10-18 - Added a brief explanation of why cones have zero Gaussian curvature to the cone geodesics page.
• 2007-10-22 - Added a new grammar rantlet.
• 2007-12-09 - Added a boilerplate disclaimer to the rants pages.
• 2007-12-09 - Updated a rantlet about the phrase “clean-shaven”.
• 2008-02-19 - Added a new leocarpus fragilis picture.
• 2008-03-03 - Added a notebook entry containing a few new words, some pulled from dreams.
• 2008-04-22 - Added a picture to the gallery.
• 2008-05-18 - Added four techniques for avoiding procrastinating to the notebook.
• 2008-05-22 - Added a note about vcards and data formats to the Tech short notes.
• 2008-05-29 - Added another way to avoid procrastination to the notebook.
• 2008-05-29 - Updated the raves page.
• 2008-07-21 - Added a rantlet about reducing prepositions in one's writing.
• 2009-01-05 - Added the 2008 bulletin.
• 2009-03-20 - Added some notes on switching from Windows to Mac OS X.
• 2009-10-06 - Froze site.

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