Site Changes, 2003
January
- 2003-01-01 - Wrapped icons with resizable text substitutes (using cascading style sheets). For example,
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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.
February
- 2003-02-01 - Created this year's notebook.
March
- 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
pageURLandcolophonto this site's customizable classes.
April
- 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.
May
- 2003-05-06 - Peppered the site with a bunch of
ABBRandACRONYMtags.
June
- 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.
July
- 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.
August
- 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.
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September
- 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.
October
- 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.
November
- 2003-11-18 - Added a note about a personal idiom.
December
- 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.
Last updated 4 June 2005
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